Rebirth of the Qing Empire

According to the report of the Security Bureau: Kang Fan's three robberies against Japan caused huge losses to the Japanese side. In exchange for the lives of many Japanese young people, he robbed a quarter of the Sino-Japanese War reparations! Not only among Japanese nationals,

It aroused great indignation and was ridiculed as a laughingstock internationally, which had a very bad impact on the entire Japanese government and Japan's international image. Therefore, several senior Japanese government officials resigned or committed suicide, but even this failed.

To calm down the anger of various parties in the country. Japanese intelligence agencies have been ordered to take action against Kang Fan. They must first capture him alive. If he fails to capture him alive, he will be killed directly. That is why Kang Fan was attacked in the capital.

After that, the Japanese organized several operations against Kang Fan, but they all failed due to the joint attack by the intelligence personnel of the Security Bureau and the officers and soldiers of the internal security force, so they never dared to sneak into Shanxi again. This time once the Japanese learned that Kang Fan had

After the news of their arrival in Tianjin, the Japanese troops stationed in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin were definitely going to cause trouble.

In fact, the Japanese sabotage activities against the Tianjin base have not stopped since the establishment of the base. On the one hand, it is because Shanxi took the lead in occupying the land that was originally their favorite, and on the other hand, it is due to competition and rivalry for economic interests.

Kang Fan himself held a grudge, but because the base's defense had never been lax, the Japanese did not take advantage. But both sides understood that the conflict would eventually surface.

The purpose of Kang Fan's army coming to Tianjin this time was to eradicate the Japanese garrison and intelligence office in the newly relocated Japanese concession in Tianjin, so as to show force and train the Jin army.

Since its establishment, the Jin Army has mostly carried out sporadic tasks to support local areas in maintaining social security and suppressing bandits. With the rapid improvement of the social environment in the province, in the end even such opportunities disappeared. Therefore, a real war was urgently needed.

Fight to test the true combat power of the Jin army.

Kang Fan analyzed that if there is a conflict between the Jin army and the Japanese army, the United States and other Western countries will definitely mediate considering their respective interests in China. In this way, the Tianjin base leased by Donovan in the name of the US government will involve the US government

The relationship with the Japanese government and the Qing government is not that big. No matter how arrogant Japan is, it will not easily go to war with the United States. Japan's main enemy at present is Russia, which is competing for its interests in Northeast China. Japan does not have full confidence.

can defeat Russia, so the conflict with the more powerful United States must not affect the war preparations for war with Russia, so it does not dare to take large-scale combat operations against the Tianjin base, and the result can only be negotiation.

Furthermore, although the establishment of the Jin Army's standing army has not yet been completed, with the existing military strength to deal with the Japanese, the Jin Army has nothing to fear on land.

The Jin army transferred by Kang Fan was part of the original 10,000 people, more than 2,000 people. Although they were all infantry, they were newly equipped with advanced portable radio communication equipment and sophisticated optical instruments.

To the company service platoon. In particular, the Type 96 sniper rifle, Type 96 machine gun and 82 recoilless rifle are all equipped with optical sights with a magnification of 6 times, and sophisticated large artillery scopes and rangefinders are also equipped.

It has greatly improved the long-range precision strike capabilities of these weapons. After the well-trained Jin army officers and soldiers have these most advanced and sophisticated weapons and equipment, it is reasonable to win.

The working group sent by the Security Bureau to Tianjin arranged for Kang Fan to live on the 5th floor of the Tianjin base office building, which is the highest floor. The officers and soldiers of the guard battalion were arranged on the 5th and 4th floors for protection, and the Jin troops who came with them were

All officers and soldiers were stationed in the expanded base barracks, ready to respond at any time. Under such strict protection, the Japanese's many assassination operations against Kang Fan ended in failure.

Agent's life.

After the combat preparations were completed, Kang Fan entrusted Donovan to report the situation to the U.S. Embassy with the obtained evidence of Japanese destruction of the Tianjin base, and at the same time launched a long-planned combat operation against Japan, codenamed "Hammer."

Operation "Heavy Hammer" was launched vigorously with a raid on the Japanese intelligence office, luring the Japanese army to take the initiative. If the Japanese army was not fooled, the Jin army would have taken a small advantage. But Kang Fan knew that the arrogant and domineering Japanese army would not suffer this disadvantage.

Yes, even if there is not enough evidence, they will take the initiative to stir up trouble to retaliate against the Jin army, not to mention now that they have this very suitable excuse?

At midnight on March 5, 1900, the Jin Army's reconnaissance unit cooperated with the working group of the Security Bureau to sneak into the Japanese concession, conduct a raid on the Japanese Intelligence Office building located in the center of the concession, and cleanly eliminate this evil-doer.

The Japanese intelligence agency blew up the three-story brick and wood structure building before withdrawing.

As expected, in the early morning, the Japanese army first fired artillery bombardments at the Tianjin base. They bombarded the Tianjin base savagely without considering whether it was a military or civilian facility. The 24 Jin army 82 field artillery that had been waiting in the base immediately attacked the Japanese artillery position.

Fight back fiercely.

The 82 field gun has a brand-new concept of assist/retreat system. It shoots stably, quickly and accurately. The rate of fire can reach an astonishing 20 rounds per minute, and the range exceeds 10 kilometers. Moreover, at this time, the Jin army has begun to use safer, faster explosions.

Larger RDX/TNT mixed high explosives, coupled with improvements in the shell's fuze, structure, shape, materials, and the use of high-performance gun steel, high-energy propellants, precision optical sights, etc., have greatly improved the destructive power of the artillery.

Before the Japanese artillery fired the second salvo, Jin artillery's overwhelming artillery fire came immediately. The dense and precise artillery fire immediately covered the entire Japanese artillery position. Kang Fan clearly saw the broken limbs of the Japanese army in the telescope.

Artillery parts and miscellaneous objects bloomed like a volcano erupting!

Within a few minutes, the Japanese artillery position was completely destroyed, and not a single shell could be fired.

The artillery battle was in full swing, and the Japanese army assembled a large number of infantry and launched a ferocious human wave attack on the Tianjin base.

In the wilderness, there were densely packed Japanese troops wearing black military uniforms and carrying long Murata-style rifles. They were like a group of house rats that had just crawled out of the chimney, squirming on the ground in black mass. But they had just rushed out of the concession area.

The Jin army scouts who were ambushed in advance used Type 99 wire-controlled anti-infantry mines to attack them, causing serious damage!

This new type of anti-infantry landmine is a rectangular thin iron box bent into a certain arc, with a total weight of 2 kilograms. After the detonator is detonated through the wire, the explosives installed on the back of the mine body explode violently, and the explosives densely arranged on the front of the mine body are exploded.

600 steel balls are shot out rapidly in a 120-degree fan, which can effectively kill people within 100 meters. It is an extremely powerful area-killing weapon.

Since the Japanese army had just broken out of the concession and was still far away from the Tianjin base, they had not yet formed a skirmish line for the charge, but formed a dense formation and swarmed forward. After 22 such mines were detonated one after another, the "steel" formed

"Rain" instantly knocked all the Japanese soldiers within the killing range to the ground. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers were covered in blood holes and were crying and howling. The scene was extremely terrifying!

After suffering this setback, the Japanese army did not give up. They retreated to the concession for a short rest and then launched a new round of attacks on the Tianjin base.

This time they learned the lesson, dispersed early, and moved forward cautiously while searching. Their marching speed was greatly slowed down, thus giving the Jin scouts who ambushed them time to escape safely.

After a platoon of scouts returned to the Tianjin base unscathed and reported the battle situation to Kang Fan, Kang Fan was quite satisfied. This news relieved his hesitant heart a lot.

The Jin army officers and soldiers defending on the periphery of the base stood in the newly dug trench in silence. The Type 96 machine guns were all mounted on tripods and in heavy machine gun status. The ammunition belts had been stuffed into the gun chambers, and the yellow and orange bullets on the ammunition belts were neatly arranged.

The machine gun bullets sparkled in the rising sun. The 82 mortars were all set to fire at Zhu Yuan. The gunners held the big-headed shells with tail fins solemnly, ready to stuff them into the muzzles at any time.

A ranging team behind Kang Fan constantly reported the distance of the Japanese army. The optical rangefinder stretched in the morning wind, and the black barrel had a solemn feeling: 1 kilometer...800 meters...600 meters...

When the Japanese army approached 200 meters, Kang Fan waved his hand and roared: "Fire!"

Suddenly, a dense rain of machine gun bullets felled the Japanese troops in pieces like a sickle harvesting wheat seedlings. 82 mortar shells fell from the sky in rows, and the violent explosions almost tore up the entire land under the Japanese troops. The Japanese troops

The column was instantly enveloped in flames and smoke, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Seeing this scene, Kang Fan calmly issued the first order to the Jin army's counterattack force, which had been waiting for a long time: "Officers and soldiers, fix your bayonets!"

The officers and soldiers pulled out the Type 96 sabers from their combat vests and inserted them into the muzzles of the Type 96 rifles with a "click" sound. Then they all faced Kang Fan, waiting for his next order.

Kang Fan picked up his 96 rifle that was also equipped with a 96 saber, stood up straight, glanced at his officers and soldiers, and smiled slightly: "Today the principal will take you to kill the Japanese devils, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid!" The officers and soldiers were excited and the voice was heard everywhere.

Kang Fan waved the rifle in his hand, and his handsome face immediately became filled with murderous intent. He suddenly shouted: "Officers and soldiers, follow me!" Before he finished speaking, he jumped out of the trench vigorously, and the first one to rush towards was already a sea of ​​​​people.

Chaotic Japanese Army!

The Jin army officers and soldiers immediately let out a majestic shout, rushed out of the bunker, and launched a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army with their company as a combat unit.

Kang Fan's example directly boosted the morale of the Jin army. The already well-trained and well-equipped Jin army officers and soldiers were even more unstoppable!

As the backbone of the infantry squad's firepower, the Type 96 machine gun has shown excellent performance: this gun can be used as either a light machine gun or a heavy machine gun. When used as a light machine gun using a bipod attached to the gun body

, the gun weighs only 10 kilograms and can be carried and fired by an individual soldier, providing close and continuous fire support for the infantry squad. The effective range is 800 meters; in heavy machine gun mode, a tripod with better shooting stability is used, and the effective range is 1,200 meters.

The gun adopts the gas-guided automatic principle, the bolt is offset and locked, and is fired in bursts. The theoretical rate of fire can reach 650 rounds/minute. Moreover, if the barrel overheats during continuous shooting, the spare barrel can be quickly replaced to continue shooting.

The Maxim heavy machine gun commonly used by all the powerful countries in the world today is the same machine gun used by Kang Fan in the Taihang Mountain bandit suppression operation. It uses a heavy water-cooled barrel and an old structural design. The gun body weighs more than 40 kilograms. With the tripod,

It will be heavier and cannot be carried by a single soldier at all, and it is very troublesome to move positions. The performance of the legal Hotchkiss heavy machine gun equipped by the Japanese army is not as good as the Maxim heavy machine gun, even if this machine gun is in the equipment sequence of the Japanese army

There are very few, with only about one for every 10,000 people. The reasons may be that first, there is insufficient understanding of the role of this new type of automatic weapon that has just appeared; second, it may be that the strength of Japan's military industry is not yet able to meet this requirement.

A large amount of ammunition for this weapon was consumed.

Shanxi has advanced industrial technology, new equipment using modern concepts, new materials and new processes and efficient production lines that can produce a large number of guns and ammunition to supply the Jin army. It has the basic conditions for equipment. Therefore, the Jin army can

The Type 96 machine gun is quite luxuriously equipped for infantry squads, that is, one can be allocated to every 15 people. Even so, Kang Fan did not use the firearm as the main killing weapon of the Jin army, but used it as a more lethal weapon.

Mainly based on various types of artillery, that is to say, the Jin Army was implemented according to the standards of the artillery warfare era when it was first formed. The Jin Army has not only realized the automation of firearms, but also entered the artillery warfare era ahead of its time.

However, the powerful countries in the contemporary world have only started to use machine guns not long ago, and they are still in the era of gun battles. Compared with the two sides, there is a world of difference.

This gap is a real disaster for the Japanese army on the opposite side!

While running, Kang Fan first fired continuously with the Type 96 rifle. After knocking down many Japanese soldiers, he rushed into the Japanese group with a roar. He then used his bayonet and gun butt to fight at close range. Then he threw away his rifle and pulled out his weapon.

92 pistol and 95 saber, holding a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, they continued to rush left and right in the Japanese army group, just like a tiger walking among wolves!

The Japanese soldiers had long rifles in their hands, and they were crowded together in a noisy manner. In order to avoid accidentally injuring their companions, they did not dare to shoot. However, if they wanted to stab Kang Fan with the bayonet on the rifle, because Kang Fan was wearing a bulletproof vest, the Japanese soldiers could not stab him at all.

Entering the vital parts of Kang Fan's chest and abdomen, the Japanese soldiers changed from initial confusion and fear to panic. For a while, they were unable to do anything to Kang Fan who was alone.

However, Kang Fan promptly switched to pistols and sabers suitable for close combat. With his quick and flexible position changes and movements, he was able to smash a Japanese army group of dozens of people into a mess and a mess.

Extreme!

Both the enemy and ourselves were stunned by Kang Fan's bravery. Amidst the smoke, the Jin officers and soldiers looked up with admiration at Kang Fan, who was a full head taller than the Japanese. This man would definitely make a Japanese soldier's body explode with one shot.

, was the man who would surely kill a Japanese soldier with a swing of his sword the approachable and meticulous principal in their impressions? Was he their honest and upright governor who loved the people like a son? At this moment, he was not the legendary God of War.

What?!

Many Jin officers and soldiers were so excited that they burst into tears due to the surge of adrenaline. They all instantly turned into crazed beasts and murderous demons. Wherever they passed, the Japanese troops fell to the ground, retreated and fled in all directions...

The officers and soldiers of the guard camp caught up with Kang Fan just in time when he was about to finish the 15 bullets in the magazine of the Type 92 pistol. After a short and fierce hand-to-hand combat, they killed the Japanese army in front of them and immediately surrounded him.

A circle protected Kang Fan. The Jin officers and soldiers beside him immediately surpassed them, shouting and rushing towards the enemy group one after another... In just this moment of delay, Kang Fan lost the chance to continue fighting!

Kang Fan just cared about himself and had fun. The scene he had dreamed of many times in his dreams finally came true today. Although the times were different, the Japanese were still the Japanese. They should be killed in a thousand or ten thousand years! But by doing so, he could kill the guards.

The officers and soldiers of the battalion were frightened and followed him around. While fighting the Japanese army, they had to be careful and think about using their own bodies to block the bullets for Kang Fan. Everyone was in a panic and was in a hurry.

When the Jin army officers and soldiers who had the advantage in firepower faced the Japanese soldiers holding manual single-shot Murata rifles, the Type 96 semi-automatic rifle's combat rate of fire of 60 rounds per minute and the magazine with a capacity of 15 rounds provided the Jin army officers and soldiers with a powerful weapon.

With the rapid and continuous firepower, combined with the powerful Type 96 grenades, the combat effect is surprisingly good. In addition, the protective performance of the bulletproof helmet and bulletproof breastplate exceeded expectations, especially the bulletproof breastplate installed in the sandwich of the tactical vest.

It was quite effective in defending against Japanese pistol fire and bayonet stabs. After this battle, there were no longer those officers and soldiers in the Jin army who refused to wear bulletproof helmets and bulletproof breastplates because they thought they were too heavy and would affect the completion of tactical actions.

This Japanese army first had to face the grenades in the hands of Jin officers and soldiers. If they were not killed, they would then face the Type 96 rifles that continuously spit out tongues of fire. If they were not killed, the Jin officers and soldiers would have already rushed in front of them.

, the sharp Type 96 bayonet is right in front of you. But if you want to fight with the bayonet, the Japanese bayonet cannot penetrate the protective breastplate of the Jin army officers and soldiers. What's more, the Jin army officers and soldiers participating in the war are all elites. Who is not a master of hand-to-hand combat?

Looking at the tragic situation where their own officers and soldiers were almost massacred, the Japanese commander realized that there was no chance of victory against the Jin army, which had huge advantages in all aspects, so he immediately gave up resistance and led the remaining officers and soldiers to retreat to the concession.

Where to run!

The Jin army's artillery, which had dealt with the Japanese artillery, quickly turned its muzzle. The 24 82 field guns fired dozens of rapid, ferocious and accurate volleys, forming dozens of walls of fire that pushed forward one after another like dominoes, following the Japanese army.

Almost all the unprotected Japanese troops were killed on the way back, and their mutilated, bloody corpses were spread all the way back to the Japanese concession!

Kang Fan led the Jin army infantry to annihilate the charging Japanese army and ordered the Jin army to suspend the attack, dig trenches, build fortifications, surround the Japanese concession, cut off all channels of communication between the concession and the outside world, and send snipers to kill outside the encirclement.

Fight and interfere with Japanese military operations.