My Italian: Chapter 337 The Battle of Rongcheng Part 2

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"The enemy is about to come up, everyone is ready."

"Is the machine gun crew ready?"

In the Lizishan position just captured, an Italian officer was directing his soldiers to quickly prepare to hold the position.

Lizi Mountain is located on the northwest side of Rongcheng County. Although this mountain is only three or four hundred meters high, it is a commanding height. As long as this mountain is occupied, it can rely on the terrain to form a sufficient threat to the county seat three or four kilometers away.

At that time, let alone other artillery pieces, even the 75mm mountain artillery of the Guards Division can get the county seat.

That's right, the Japanese troops who landed in Shandong have all huddled in and around Rongcheng County. Although this is also the place of death, in order to delay the footsteps of the Italian army and buy time for the Japanese army in the Liaodong Peninsula and North Korea, its commander, Major General Izawa Hachiro, even gave a death order, requiring every Japanese soldier to fight to the last person. (In order to prevent senior officers from being captured and shaken the hearts of the army, senior officers such as Yamaxian Yuto and Yamamoto Motoji have been picked up on a dark night.)

Of course, this order was carried out very well at the beginning, because the Japanese army concealed the news of the defeat in the naval battle. Qinglong Bay was shelled, and it was said to be a sneak attack by the Italian fleet while the combined fleet was away.

Therefore, the resistance of the Japanese army was very strong. Even if it was Italian artillery washing the ground, the remaining Japanese army was very effective. However, after the artillery was suppressed, the Japanese army could only counter the offensive of the Italian soldiers with the Murata rifles in their hands. However, the Japanese army's Murata rifles have a very slow rate of fire. The Murata 13th and Murata 22 types they are mainly equipped with are single-shot rifles, and the last bullet is fired. The number of the latest Murata 22 magazine rifles Rare is useless at all.

As for a small number of Gatling six-barrel machine guns, they are too bulky and are very easy to attract Italian artillery attacks, making them perform poorly on the battlefield.

Moreover, the Gatling machine gun needs to be hand-cranked to launch too many shortcomings. Compared with the Maxim of the Italian army, it is a gap of two generations.

Therefore, after being taken care of, the role of the Gatling machine gun in defense is not very obvious.

The influence of these various factors was also the main reason for the successive breakthroughs of Japanese positions.

Given that the Lizishan position was an important commanding point for the Japanese army, it was reasonable to attract the Japanese army to counterattack after it was captured by the Italian army.

Under the bombardment of Italian artillery fire, a large group of Japanese troops launched a counterattack against it.

"Fire!"

The officers defending the position immediately ordered fire after the Japanese entered a distance of 400 meters.

Following the officer's order, the soldiers on the position immediately pulled the trigger on the charging enemy with their weapons.

The crisp sound of Carcano rifles resounded in the positions, and the Japanese soldiers in the distance kept appearing to be knocked down. Of course, in the defensive battle, the absolute protagonist is the several Maxim machine guns on the position.

As an absolute killing weapon, the Maxim machine gun's performance in defensive battles is unparalleled. The continuous shooting is cleaning up the charging Japanese army.

The eyes of Major General Izawa Hachiro, who was watching the battle from a distance, burst into flames.

"Baga, the enemy's firepower is so powerful, why did Colonel Honda rush so hard? Isn't this a waste of soldiers' lives?"

Major General Izawa completely forgot that he was ordering him to take back his position, and instead cared about the lives of the soldiers.

No way, when General Youpeng in Shanxian County and Lieutenant General Shan Yuanzhi left, he was strictly ordered to defend as long as possible, preferably for a month, to leave enough time for the Japanese army in other places. Of course, if you can't do it, then half a month is acceptable.

And since Major General Izawa stayed, he naturally had the determination to die, so he basically adopted the method of defending. After all, defense always had an advantage over offense.

Of course, he is not always defensive, for example, at key points, he is also ready for reinforcements or counterattacks.

As the commander of the troop that reinforced Li Zishan, Colonel Honda was delayed by the enemy's artillery fire and delayed the reinforcements. If Li Zishan was captured by the enemy, he had an inescapable responsibility, and it was understandable for him to retake Li Zishan.

It's just that the firepower of the Italian troops that captured Li Zishan was too fierce, so the Honda team could only be defeated.

In fact, the Japanese themselves know that the Murata rifles in the hands of their own soldiers and the Carcano rifles of the other side have formed a generational difference.

But now it is too late to change, so the soldiers can only insist on gritting their teeth.

The Italians did not give the Japanese a chance to persist. After repelling the Japanese attack, the Italian army immediately dragged the artillery up the mountain.

In the next two days, with the advantage of occupying the commanding heights, the Italian army successively won Dongzhao Mountain, Yujia Mountain, Yatou River and other places, and semi-encircled the Japanese army in Shandong in Rongcheng County.

Of course, the Japanese army has not stopped resisting in the past two days. The Japanese army, who felt that it was about to be wiped out, was dispatched one after another, trying to stop the behavior of the coalition forces, but it was not dominant in weapons, personnel, and geography. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for the Japanese army to take advantage of it, and it is basically at a loss.

Watching the Yi-Qing coalition forces push the Japanese army into a desperate situation step by step, the Japanese army's own morale is also constantly declining, and deserters have already appeared among its Japanese officers and soldiers.

This made Major General Pulev very satisfied, and it also made the Qing army overjoyed, and some people even acted without authorization to gain a head and show their prominence. However, it is obvious that some people think too much, the Japanese army's position is still stable, and it has lost thousands of soldiers for this.

Pulev was furious and demanded an explanation from the Qing army. In fact, there is no need for Pulev to be angry, the Qing army is also annoyed. This kind of eye-opening guy, do you still want to keep doing bad things?

So he wanted to show his head, but he did it. Under the pressure of Zhou Fu and Zhou's political envoy, Ding Ruchang summoned everyone to sacrifice the head of a certain unsightly guy. This kind of guy who has more than enough success and more than failure, dares to come to harm Li Zhongtang. It doesn't matter who he is standing in the background.

Pressing the farce-like dispute between the Qing troops, the general offensive against Rongcheng County was launched three days later.

This time, with a big wave of Major General Pulev, the two consecutive days of artillery shelling made the Italian artillery officers and soldiers more skilled, and the Japanese army and Mr. Zhou turned pale.

The 30,000 rounds of artillery shells raised by Lord Zhou were all in this shelling, but the effect was very good. The positions outside Rongcheng County were beaten to scorched earth, and the buildings in the city were basically destroyed.

Not to mention the city wall, it is the target of the key attack.

According to the statistics after the event, the Japanese army suffered nearly 2,000 casualties in this artillery attack, and those who were not injured also suffered a great blow in spirit. In addition, the loss of weapons is even more astonishing. Only 13 of its 47 cannons are available, and only 3 of the 11 Gatling hand-cranked machine guns are available. Then, the loss of ammunition and other materials is also very expensive. After all, this kind of indiscriminate attack is the first time the Japanese army has seen, and there is no defense.

Since the Japanese army was knocked out by the shelling, what are you waiting for, Major General Pulev finally let the Qing army attack this time. The Italian army was responsible for the main attack in the west, while the north and south were handed over to the Qing army (the sea was not far from the east).

This time, nothing went wrong. It only took two days for the western side of the main Italian attack to capture the city wall~www.mtlnovel.com~ The Qing army on both sides also captured the city wall with the help of the Italian army.

At this time, in accordance with European practice, Major General Pulev sent an envoy to demand the surrender of the Japanese army. After all, it has now been shown that the surviving Japanese army has fallen into a dead place, and there is absolutely no possibility of escape.

However, in the face of Pulev's persuasion to surrender, Major General Izawa Hachiro Duan Ran refused.

Since the enemy insisted, there was nothing to say. After two days of fighting, the Japanese army entrenched in Rongcheng County was completely wiped out.

So far, the Japanese army that landed in Shandong has been eliminated as an organic system. There may be a few people who got away with it, but they can no longer pose a threat.

In this battle, Italy killed 581 people, injured 987 people, lost 17 artillery pieces and more than 50,000 shells, wiped out 14,200 Japanese troops, captured 5 artillery pieces, more than 2,900 guns, and captured more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers. .

Of course, there is also the credit of the Qing army, its allies. If the Qing army was not responsible for the tasks of transporting supplies, investigating the enemy's situation, and protecting the flanks, the Italian army would not have achieved such a smooth victory.

But in any case, this heavy battle report can relieve Li Zhongtang's pressure to some extent, of course, this is not considering the consumption of ammunition.

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