1890 King of Southeast Asia

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In the first few minutes, due to the smoke and dust, the machine gun fired according to the standard of ordinary suppression fire.

That is, the firing rate is 300 to 400 per minute, and 30 to 60 bullets are fired at a time.

When the dust cleared, Zhao Dezhong saw a yellow ocean.

"Whose wheat field is this? It is so tall and strong. The yield must be good, right?" The mechanic who was patrolling back and forth was a little short-sighted. He saw a yellow field and mistakenly thought it was a wheat field.

This shows from the side how dense the Japanese were arranged.

"Fire at full speed, the highest firing rate, don't save bullets, don't waste time aiming." Zhao Dezhong was not short-sighted. He knew clearly that this was not a wheat field, but the Japanese army, and shouted nervously.

Boom, boom, boom...

The Maxim heavy machine gun's firing rate was increased to 600 rounds per minute. A belt of bullets, pressing the trigger, can only last for fifteen seconds.

"Change bullets." The machine gunner shouted and opened the bolt.

Zhao Dezhong picked up another bandolier, stuffed it in, pulled the trigger, loaded the gun, bang bang bang...

The noise produced by the machine gun firing at full power was very huge, and there was also smoke and water vapor, and the environment in the bunker gradually became worse.

"Change bullets!"

Bang bang bang...

"Change bullets."

Bang bang...

The operation of the machine gun was very boring and mechanical.

"Change bullets."

More than a dozen bandoliers were used up in just a few minutes, and the same was true for the other machine gun.

Zhao Dezhong searched the ground for unused bandoliers, but found that they had all been used.

"Han Zhu, Han Zhu, bring the bullets over!" Zhao Dezhong shouted hurriedly.

The machine gun had stopped for a while, and Zhao Dezhong was very anxious when he thought of the dense crowd.

"Here it comes." Han Zhu ran over with four bandoliers on his body, and took the remaining bandoliers away before leaving.

Zhao Dezhong loaded the machine gun with bullets while observing the situation.

After a few minutes of shooting, the Japanese forward had cleared a large area and failed to break through the third barbed wire.

This made Zhao Dezhong relieved.

"Aim at the crowd and shoot in long bursts." Zhao Dezhong changed his shooting method.

Bullets are not expensive, and they are not short of them. In this bunker, there are two large boxes with more than 4,000 unopened ammunition.

They can also go to the rear warehouse to resupply ammunition at any time, and the distance is only more than 200 meters.

However, it takes time to load bullets into the bullet belt.

At the highest firing rate, ten bullets can be sprayed out in one second. Even if three ammunition operators work together, they can't keep up with this speed.

Boom boom boom boom boom...

The machine gunner obviously knew this situation and started to fire in long bursts, hitting the enemy in the front first.

The sound of the heavy machine gun that kept spewing out gradually stopped, and was replaced by the sound of long and short bursts, which was very rhythmic.

With only light machine guns, it is better to pull the trigger once and shoot the bullets. Anyway, there are only 30 rounds in a magazine, and it is more convenient to load the magazine.

Swoosh... buzz~

Zhao Dezhong heard the sound of bullets cutting through the air. Hearing this sound meant that he was safe.

Turning his head, he saw that the machine gunner had already climbed onto the machine gun without saying a word.

"Han Zhu, you come to be my assistant shooter." After helping the man up, Zhao Dezhong found that the bullet had hit his heart. He sighed and put him aside.

The battlefield is like this. A bullet weighing only a few grams flying from an unknown direction can take a life.

Boom boom boom boom.

Zhao Dezhong aimed at the crowd, pressed the trigger, fired a long burst, and then moved the muzzle slightly, and fired another long burst.

In this way, they shot for nearly half an hour.

In fact, the Japanese soldiers had already been in chaos, especially the soldiers in the front row, who were either dead or retreating.

But their crowd was too dense, and the people behind kept squeezing up, just like a stampede.

Some Japanese soldiers who were already extremely nervous fired at their own people, but more were killed by machine guns before they could react.

By seven or eight minutes, most of the Japanese troops had begun to fear and began to retreat, but...

They had no way to retreat.

Seeing that the soldiers were about to collapse, Hasegawa Yoshimichi ordered to stop crossing the river and wait for the people on the river to rush up.

Boom!

Boom!

Two guns, just two guns, hit two pontoon bridges respectively, and the pontoon bridges were broken in the middle, cutting off the Japanese army's retreat.

At this time, the Battle of the Somme had not yet taken place, and the Germans had not really attacked the machine gun positions in the Battle of Paris, so the world's understanding of machine guns was not clear enough.

Hasegawa Yoshimichi knew that there would definitely be huge casualties, but he was optimistic that after paying the casualties, he could take down the Chinese positions.

In this way, even if the front line was pushed into the Chinese territory, the political significance was great, and it was worth it even if it cost huge casualties.

Fifteen minutes into the battle, perhaps knowing that they had no way to retreat, the Japanese launched another charge, perhaps because they knew they had no way to retreat, which aroused their inherent ferocity.

This charge was completely disorganized, even worse than the previous squeeze charge. The Japanese rushed towards the machine gun position with a scream and no organization.

This scattered attack affected the efficiency of the machine guns. After all, in the initial formation, it was very normal to have two in a row. There were many who had three in a row.

However, it only affected the efficiency. The barbed wire rolled into a circle with barbs blocked the Japanese's way forward.

The Japanese braved the hail of bullets, using the bodies of their teammates or simply spreading the wounded and sick on the wire mesh, and then stepped on the bodies of their own people to advance.

In this way, the Japanese broke through three layers of wire mesh with an absolute numerical advantage, and there were only two wire meshes left in front of them...

But this was already the limit of the Japanese.

From Zhao Dezhong's perspective, an hour ago, the Japanese gathered densely together, and more than 40 minutes ago, the Japanese scattered in a messy manner, and were also relatively dense, everywhere.

But now, the figures that were still moving have become sparse, and the entire bunker where he was located has become smoky.

"The Japanese retreated." Another machine gunner raised his eyes from the sight.

His appearance was very strange, with black and yellow dust all over his face, and only the right eye was not stained with any dust.

"Tap the ammunition lightly, be careful of the Japanese cheating." Zhao Dezhong also looked at the battlefield, but couldn't see anything clearly.

Looking around, there were corpses everywhere. In many places, corpses were piled up. Around the barbed wire, blood gathered and formed a stream, flowing to the Green River, dyeing it red.

"Squad leader, we fired a total of 20 boxes of bullets." Han Zhu collapsed to the side and said.

Twenty boxes, one box with 1,200 rounds, a total of 24,000 rounds, and those prepared in advance were not counted.

On average, a machine gun fired more than 12,000 rounds. Zhao Dezhong looked at the empty boxes on the ground, then looked at the battlefield, silently took out a cigarette, put it under his nose and smelled it.

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"Division Commander, front-line battle report." The chief of staff handed the battle report to Zou Cheng.

Zou Cheng was smoking one cigarette after another. He didn't expect the Japanese to be so crazy and send tens of thousands of people over at once.

For a tentative attack, at most three to five thousand people would be a lot. If tens of thousands of people attacked the same place, Zou Cheng didn't know if he could hold it.

"What? Killed more than 40,000 people? Less than 200 casualties?" Zou Cheng looked at the chief of staff in surprise and pinched his thigh hard.

The casualty ratio of more than 1:200 made him feel a little magical.

"To be precise, the casualties in the battle were only about 100, and the remaining 100 casualties were caused by the Japanese wounded when they went to clean up the battlefield."

"For this matter, Xu Shijie did not report it, and directly ordered to prohibit the collection of wounded and kill all enemies, so more than 40,000 were killed, and there was no report of wounds."

"The final casualty ratio is almost like this." The chief of staff looked at Zou Cheng with some concern.

"There should be no problem. I will report it to the upper level, but I will declare to the outside world that this is the result of the Japanese preferring death to surrender and fighting to the end." Zou Cheng calmed down and said after thinking about it.

In the past, when he was in the South China Army, he certainly didn't care.

The South China Army was mainly composed of Chinese, who were outsiders, and the degree of unity was very high. Such a situation would not spread out.

And at that time, even if it was spread out, it would not be a big problem. As an "outsider", South China did not care, and there was not much opposition in the world.

But now, the Huaxia Empire is not recognized by other countries. Even if it is bought and sold, the documents of both parties are three different names.

That is only the case during wartime, but the war will end sooner or later. The Huaxia Empire believes that it is undoubtedly the best time to strive for recognition from other countries and reach an established fact.

Kill the wounded and do not take prisoners. It is undoubtedly against the spirit of the Hague Convention and the Geneva Convention, especially when Europe is at war, who knows what will happen.

Therefore, Zou Cheng said that the Japanese fought to the death and caused such heavy casualties.

"That's not how things are done. Let's forget about it this time. We must capture some prisoners next time so that we can have an explanation to the media." Zou Cheng said to the chief of staff before picking up the phone.

The chief of staff nodded and retreated. This matter was over...

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"How is it possible?! How is it possible? Why is it like this?" Hasegawa Yoshimichi stared at the telescope and muttered quietly.

He has been in this posture for nearly an hour. The staff who came up to persuade him was slapped by him, and then no one dared to touch him.

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When the Japanese army just started to attack, Hasegawa Yoshimichi was very surprised. Although the dense formation would definitely cause huge casualties, he was confident that he could defeat such a huge attacking team in one battle.

Unfortunately, the second half of the matter did not go as he expected. Huaxia slaughtered the soldiers of the three special divisions with machine guns like cutting wheat.

More than 40,000 people were killed or wounded (and then the wounded were killed), and more than 10,000 people were scattered, either shrinking on the river bank or simply taking off their clothes and swimming back.

"Commander, the headquarters asked about the progress of the war." The chief of staff came in and smiled helplessly when he saw the headquarters.

Hasegawa Yoshimichi heard this, like a stone, motionless.

"I have called back and we are attacking. The casualties are quite heavy, but our army has found a breakthrough and will break through soon." Seeing this, the chief of staff said to himself.

"Launch Plan B!" After a long time, Hasegawa Yoshimichi responded.

"Hai!" The chief of staff smiled with satisfaction.

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At 4:30 pm on October 15, the Japanese army suddenly launched an all-out attack on the defense line of more than 100 kilometers from north to south.

This attack caught the Chinese side off guard. The Ninth Army was being mobilized because of the Japanese offensive in Jiuliancheng.

The front-line troops certainly did not weaken, but the reaction was a bit slow.

At 6 pm, the Japanese army suddenly stopped the attack. Within an hour and a half, thousands of casualties occurred (this is normal).

On the night of October 15, the Japanese army began to bombard Jiuliancheng again. This time, the Japanese army did not entangle with the Chinese artillery.

At 3 am on October 16, the Japanese army launched a night attack. Many places were discovered and blocked by Chinese soldiers, but north of Jiuliancheng, the Japanese army made two breakthroughs in succession.

One was a pocket where the Chinese flowed out, and the other was a real breached defense line.

By dawn, the Japanese army had advanced 17 kilometers and 4 kilometers at the two breakthrough points respectively. The Japanese army was expanding along the breakthrough points, hoping to expand its advantage.

The Ninth Army quickly drew personnel and moved northward, hoping to block the Japanese offensive momentum.

Once it started, the disadvantage of insufficient Chinese troops was magnified. As a last resort, the Ninth Army mobilized the reserve while asking for help from the three provincial headquarters.

The headquarters of the three provinces' border defense forces sent a high-profile distress telegram to Chang'an, saying that the troops were exhausted and requested support...

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"Your Majesty, this Japanese attack is very problematic. It is an attack that is almost regardless of casualties, regardless of all costs, and without any rest."

"I suspect this is a trap, because the Japanese army is not made of iron. This momentum cannot be maintained. Two days, at most two days, the Japanese must rest."

After receiving the news, Xie Hui was the first to feel that something was wrong.

In the two days of attack, the Japanese casualties were at least 70,000 if not 80,000. This casualty rate is very abnormal.

No commander would attack without probing, and no commander would force the use of tactics knowing that they would not work. Except for the Germans, no one would treat people as machines for layout.

People will be tired, fearful, pessimistic, and rebellious.

"Your Majesty, what the chief of staff said makes sense. There must be a reason why the Japanese are so anxious." Yang Tao also nodded and agreed with him.

"The Japanese do have a conspiracy, and it's a big one." Liu Yiming smiled and asked Jiang Wang to hand the documents to everyone present.

"Through our intelligence system, we can determine that the Japanese are doing this to put pressure on us at all costs."

"Recent intelligence shows that the Japanese are stepping up the collection of materials and supplying them to the navy. If nothing unexpected happens, Japan wants to fight a decisive battle." Liu Yiming said happily.

"Decisive battle? This is not a good time." Wang Yang frowned.

"Yes, there is no rush to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese." Gu Fan also echoed.

Whether the decisive battle wins or loses, it will change the situation. Maybe it will end the war. The current situation is that Nanhua needs this war as an excuse to be independent of many things.

For example, the issue of joining the Allied Powers and declaring war on Germany is being discussed.

"So, we have to give them some appropriate materials." Liu Yiming nodded.

"Each army should make a gesture of a decisive battle and let the world know."

"The navy dispatches submarine forces to lay mines in Japanese waters."

"The army can abandon some fortifications and retreat when appropriate. It is best to pretend to be defeated, but control casualties."

"Tomorrow, announce to the Japanese government, demanding that Japan abolish the emperor, abolish the preferential treatment system for the nobility and samurai class, and restore the Kingdom of Korea. On this basis, the navy and army's requirements remain unchanged. If this condition is met, China is willing to cease fire."

"If it cannot be achieved, then let's not talk..." Liu Yiming directly put forward impossible conditions.

Unless Japan is at its wit's end, it will not agree to the conditions...

[Author's digression]: Two big chapters, the number of words is equivalent to adding more brothers.

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