Chapter 414: Lushun Strategy (11)

After the Lushun Prison was conquered, only the positions of Baiyushan and Lushun Railway Station remained.

Because the Lushun Railway Station is the headquarters of the Japanese army, and relying on each other with Baiyushan, it is also the most heavily guarded position in the Lushun urban area, and the Japanese army has arranged a total of 5 wings here, about 2,000 people, and more than 10 various artillery.

In fact, the People's Army also knew the importance of the position of Baiyushan, so at the beginning of the battle, the People's Army carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of Baiyushan, but Nogi Noshinori was not incompetent, since he had recognized the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, he had already thought of a countermeasure, he only left a squadron to guard at the top of Baiyushan, and left most of the army in the railway station position, and when the People's Army's artillery bombardment was over and launched an attack on Baiyushan, he would put a large force into Baiyushan to defend.

The position of the railway station was based on Baiyu Mountain as a barrier, so the shelling was not serious, of course, this was also related to the people's army's restraint in the shelling of the railway station. Because Lushun Railway Station is the end point of the Harbin-Dalian Line of the Middle East Railway, and is directly connected to the Port of Lushun, the goods transported by sea can be directly on the train after almost getting off the ship, and it is a key construction hub in the urban area of Lushun, and the People's Army does not want to cause major damage to the railway station, otherwise after the capture of Lushun, it will take considerable manpower, material resources and time to repair, so the railway station is designated as the target of the prohibition of heavy artillery shelling. Of course, since the railway station and Baiyushan are mutually dependent, as long as Baiyushan is captured, the railway station is within reach.

However, during the attack on Baiyu Mountain, the People's Army encountered the most stubborn resistance since the attack on Lushun. When the People's Army launched an attack on Baiyu Mountain, the Japanese army had already taken the lead and sent two wings to garrison the mountain. Although the Japanese army could not build a perfect position on the mountain, after all, it occupied a favorable terrain, and the Japanese army also intended to put the KPA halfway up the mountain, and then rush down from the top of the mountain to fight with the KPA in a white-knuckle battle.

Seeing this, the commander of the People's Army was not in a hurry to launch a second attack, but called in artillery to shell Baiyushan again. When the Japanese saw the KPA shelling coming again, they immediately withdrew the army from the hill, leaving only a few soldiers on guard on the hill, and when the KPA shelling stopped and launched another attack, they moved the army up the hill to garrison, and as a result, they once again repelled the KPA attack.

At this time, the People's Army had occupied most of the area in Lushun, and the Japanese position was the only one left, so the 1st Division transferred two regiments and assigned three battalions to attack Baiyushan from three sides, and sent two more battalions to block the railway station before and after, and the Marines also dispatched a battalion to suppress the Japanese troops at the railway station across the Dragon River.

Moreover, the People's Army also learned the lesson of the failure of the first two attacks on Baiyushan, and did not call for artillery to launch an artillery attack on Baiyushan, but switched to using mortars to coordinate with the infantry in combat, and the mortar troops followed closely behind the attacking troops, advancing layer by layer, and constantly firing at the Japanese soldiers on the mountain, while the infantry did not rush up the hill in a hurry, but made full use of the mortar's fire cover and slowly advanced towards the mountain.

This time, it was really difficult for the Japanese army to adapt, and they could no longer wait for the People's Army to attack easily, because the mortar shells kept falling from the top of their heads, although the explosive power of the mortars was not as good as the artillery, but there were no decent position fortifications on Baiyu Mountain, and even if there were, they were almost blown up by two rounds of shelling, so the mortars could also inflict heavy blows on the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese army could not just wait on the top of the mountain to be artillery, so they could only take the initiative to attack the KPA before the KPA could rush to the middle of the mountain, and at this time, the KPA attacking from all three directions had just advanced to the foot of Baiyu Mountain. The Japanese army took the initiative to rush down Baiyu Mountain, but it gave the People's Army a chance, and the soldiers in the front row immediately formed a linear array, raised their guns and fired, and many Japanese soldiers fell on the route of rushing down the mountain.

Of course, it is impossible for such a linear array to block the Japanese army's charge, but after all, it can cause certain losses to the Japanese army, frustrate the Japanese army's spirit, and then meet it and engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army.

Because the position of the white-knuckle battle was at the foot of the mountain, the Japanese army also lost its condescending advantage, and was also smaller than the KPA in numbers, although the bayonet skills were stronger than the KPA, but for a time the two sides were inseparable and evenly matched.

Of course, at this time, the tactics have no effect, and the commanders of both sides are powerless, the competition is the fighting spirit, hard work, technology, and determination of the soldiers on both sides, the Japanese army has been mobilized before the war, most of the soldiers are ready to die, and the soldiers of the People's Army have also been encouraged by mobilization, and everyone has the determination to win, so the soldiers on both sides are very brave, as if they were dead, and do not flinch. Bayonets and bayonets,* violent collisions with the barrels of guns, punches, kicks, headbutts, hugging, etc., mixed with countless gunshots, explosions, roars, screams, shouts, and other sounds.

The two sides fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and although by this time the Japanese army's strength and determination were not below the KPA, the inferiority in numbers gradually increased, because the KPA had reinforcements to support it, while the Japanese army did not.

Nogi Noshinori didn't have a plan at this time, the Japanese army had a total of 5 coalition troops, and at this time 3 coalition troops had been invested in the Baiyushan position, and two coalition troops remained in the railway station position, but they were also fiercely attacked by the People's Army, although the People's Army did not use large-caliber artillery and mortars to attack the railway station position, but 60 mortars, The grenadiers could still be used, and these weapons did little damage to the fixed buildings, but they were not a small threat to the soldiers, and there was also a battalion of the People's Army on the other side of the Long River suppressed with frantic firepower, so there were no extra troops to reinforce the Japanese troops at Baiyushan.

As a result, the Japanese army fought less and less, and continued to retreat, while the People's Army was advancing step by step, retreating from the foot of the mountain to the halfway up the mountain, and then retreating to the top of the mountain, but a large number of Japanese soldiers and KPA soldiers were left along the way, and after retreating to the top of the mountain, the Japanese army had no way to retreat, some of them retreated to the railway station position, and some of them surrendered to the People's Army, after all, those who were determined to die in battle were basically killed at this time.

After the capture of Baiyu Mountain, the Lushun Railway Station was completely exposed to the troops of the People's Army, so after a little repair, the People's Army immediately launched a final attack on the Lushun Railway Station.

By this time, although there were still many soldiers desperately resisting, the general trend of the Japanese army had gone, and the position of the railway station was constantly broken through, and finally it took less than 30 minutes to completely capture the railway station, and in a room, the body of General Nogi Noshinori who committed suicide was found.

In this way, after eight days of fierce fighting, the People's Army finally completely captured the Lushun area, obtained a port for the East China government on the Liaodong Peninsula, and completely opened the gap in the Liaodong Peninsula.

In the whole battle, the Japanese army lost a total of 22,764 killed, 7,851 captured, 10,843 captured logistics personnel, among the prisoners, the number of wounded more than half, and among the captured logistics personnel, more than half of them were technicians, in addition to about 600 medical personnel, including 327 female medical personnel, in addition to 657 Russian soldiers killed, 6,274 prisoners, and the KPA also lost 2,813 killed, 3,742 wounded, and 67 missing, but most of the wounded fighters were slightly wounded, and at least half of the wounded fighters could recover from injuries and regain combat ability within 10 days。

In addition, Lushun is also an important base of weapons and materials for the Japanese army, and more than 7 percent of the weapons and materials needed by the Japanese army to maintain the war are transported to other battlefields through Lushun, although Liaoyang is now the headquarters of the Japanese army, but there is still about half of the materials in Lushun, of course, all of them have become the trophies of the People's Army.

Among them, the main weapons include: 24 artillery pieces, 17,358 rifles, 22,560 rounds of various shells, 527,500 rounds of ammunition, *2,134 tons, and other materials include about 32,000 tons of various grains, 8,250 kilograms of canned food, 5,140 kilograms of medicine, 2,500 horses and donkey livestock, 6 locomotives, and 47 carriages. There are also some such as cloth, timber, steel, cement, etc.

Although the 6 mm bullets used by the Japanese rifles and the 7.62 mm bullets of the KPA rifles could not be used, so the captured rifles and bullets were not of much use, the gains after the capture of Lushun were quite huge, and they played a great role in the next step of the KPA's operations.

In addition, Jingran also found 3 battleships and an armored cruiser in Port Arthur, which turned out to be the warships of the former Russian Pacific Fleet, the battleships Retvizan, Victory, Poltava, and the armored cruiser Bayan. It turned out that the Russian Pacific Fleet had 7 battleships, the flagship Petropavlovsk was sunk by a mine, and the second flagship Crown Prince broke through and escaped in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, but was intercepted and captured by the KPA Navy, and now it has become the battleship Weiyang in the KPA naval order.

The remaining five battleships and the armored cruiser Bayo retreated to Port Arthur after the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and all six warships were sunk in the harbor during the Japanese attack on Arthur. After the Japanese occupied Arthur, they found that the sunken positions of these six warships were not deep, and even the warships were not completely missed, and the age of these warships was not more than 1 0 years, and there were only four warships left in the combined fleet, so Japan decided to salvage and repair all these warships and integrate them into the combined fleet, and now four have been salvaged, and only the battleships Sevastopol and Peresvet have not been salvaged. Of course, all of them have become trophies of the People's Army.