Although the Guanjian attacking Port Arthur is the 203 Heights, it is not just the 203 Heights that will be all right, because the 203 Heights are not an isolated position, but a series of surrounding highland terrains, forming a defensive system that supports and cooperates with each other, but the 203 Heights are the highest and located in the central area, so they are the most important positions, but if the 203 Heights are attacked, they must be attacked together with the surrounding defensive positions, otherwise not only when attacking the 203 Heights, they will be attacked by other positions around them, even if the 203 Heights are occupied, it is difficult to maintain them for a long time。

The main positions around the 203 Heights were Dadingshan and Laohugou Mountain in the north, Shengjia Mountain in the south, and Taiyanggou in the north, etc., because the People's Army landed on the west side of Lushun, so it avoided the positions of Nanshan, Songshu Mountain, Chair Mountain, Baiyu Mountain, and Shuishi Camp in the northeast of Lushun.

Luo Yue gathered the high-ranking personnel of the Marine Corps and the 1st Army to negotiate and decide, with the Marines attacking the 203rd Heights, Shengjia Mountain, and Beiyanggou, the 1st Division of the 1st Army attacking Dadingshan and Laohugou Mountain, the 6th Division as the general reserve, the 1st Reserve Regiment being responsible for guarding the beachhead, and the Navy being responsible for fire support. The tactics of the Naval Forces were to be decided by the individual units, and the distribution of naval fire support was to be negotiated after the arrival of the two battleships. The battle was set for 7 a.m.

Now there is only one division of the Marine Corps, so it happens that three combat regiments will attack these three positions separately, and the distribution of the three positions is as follows: 1 regiment to attack the 203 heights, 2 regiments to attack Katsujia Dashan, and 3 regiments to attack North Sun Gully. The subordinate fire support units and artillery units of each regiment went into battle with each regiment, and the divisional artillery regiments were also split and delegated to each regiment to fight in a coordinated manner.

So in the evening of the same day, the regiments of the Marine Corps also carried out urgent deliberations, formulated a battle plan, fortunately is the terrain situation in this area, the People's Army has done a detailed surveying and mapping, drawn a very accurate map, and also made a large sand table, although the strength of the Japanese troops guarding the position is unknown, but the place on these hills is not large, it is impossible to garrison too many troops, generally around 3, 500, if more, the strength can not be fully developed.

By 9 o'clock in the evening, each regiment had formulated its own battle plan and handed it over to Luo Yue for review. Luo Yue is also basically satisfied.

At 5 a.m., the two warships arrived in the waters of Arthur and joined the fleet of the Marine Corps, while Luo Yue was resting on the 218 ship, so he got up from his bed and summoned the captains of the ships on his seat to negotiate tomorrow's battle.

Since tomorrow's battle will be carried out from multiple positions at the same time, it is impossible to concentrate the firepower of all warships to bombard a certain position, but the firepower cannot be too dispersed, and although there are no large warships in Port Arthur, there are still a few destroyers and boats, and these small ships are all equipped with *, so they have the ability to sink large warships, and they must be guarded against the attacks of these small ships and small boats.

In the end, it was decided that the direction of the Marine Corps' attack was, of course, the focus on the 203 Heights, so the two battleships of the newly arrived Yuanyang and the Aoyang were responsible for bombarding the 203 Heights, while the 1st Division's attack direction was Dadingshan as the focus of the attack, and the four Zhenyuan-class warships would bombard the other positions.

The time of the shelling was set for 6:40 a.m., and the escort of the fleet was carried out by two submarines and two 218 boats. After dealing with these tasks, Luo Yue returned to land, and his headquarters was located in Lijiatun, about 6 kilometers west of Heights 203. This was originally a mountain village, with about 1,000 people, but now there are less than 300 left, and they are all old, weak, women and children, so Luo Yue set this place as his headquarters.

On the day of the armistice, of course, the Japanese army was not idle, Nogi Noshinori was also mobilizing troops to strengthen the defense of the surrounding positions, and at 10:30 a.m., Nogi Noshinori learned that when the combined fleet intercepted the Russian fleet in the Tsushima Strait, it was intercepted by the overseas Chinese fleet, and was sunk 2 battleships, 2 armored cruisers, and many warships were injured, and it was impossible to fight again in a short time, and the People's Army not only landed in Lushun last night, but also broke through the Liaohe defense line, and almost fully participated in the war.

After the East China government entered the war, the Japanese army will be in an extremely unfavorable situation, and not only can it not be supported by the navy, but also Liaoyang can not give itself much chance of sending reinforcements in the short term, so it can only rely on the army under his own command, and now the Japanese army guarding Lushun is about 23,000 people, and there are about 8,000 troops in the Jinzhou area.

Of course, Nogi Noshinori is not blindly confident, when the Japanese army captured Lushun, a total of 100,000 troops were invested, and the number of guards in Lushun did not exceed 50,000 at most, but it took 9 months to capture Lushun. Although the Japanese army does not have enough fortifications now, but the ammunition is sufficient, the materials are complete, if it was in the past, Nogi Noshinori would dare to boast of holding Lushun for half a year, but after experiencing the fierce Lushun offensive battle, it was under his own command, so that the Japanese army suffered heavy losses, Nogi Noshinori also restrained a lot, and he was conservative when assessing.

At 12 noon, Nogi Noshinori received a telegram from the commander Oyama Rock, asking if he could hold Lushun, so Nogi Noshinori also replied according to his expected time, and he could ensure that he could hold on for a month.

Dashanyan was quite relieved to hear it, to be honest, now Dashanyan is also as big as a fight, the Liaohe defense line was broken through by the People's Army overnight, Lushun also landed successfully, and the combined fleet was hit hard, and there were hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in the north, of course, whether it was Dashanyan or Nogi Noshinori, they didn't know that the combined fleet was actually hit by a near-devastating blow, and thought that after 3, After 4 months of repairs, the Combined Fleet can still fight again, and if the two of them, who are Dashan and are Daiyama, know the real losses of the Combined Fleet, I am afraid it will be another plan.

However, listening to Nogi Noshinori say that he can hold Lushun for at least a month, Dashanyan's mood is much more relaxed, at least within this month, he can ignore Lushun and deal with the People's Army of the Liaohe River with all his might, and now the Japanese army still has a part of the reserve force, that is, the 4th Army Corps stationed in Korea and the area around the Yalu River, about 80,000 people, and now it is time to use this army.

After ending the contact with Dashan Rock, Nogi Noshinori also immediately began to arrange the defense system of Lushun, the original Japanese army in Dadingshan, Laohugou Mountain, Shengjia Mountain, North Sun Valley, 203 Heights each had 1 wing stationed, and equipped with 4 machine guns, 2 artillery, and Dadingshan and 203 Heights were the weight of each defensive line, so Nogi Noshinori sent 1 wing to each of these two positions, and added 4 machine guns and 4 artillery pieces to Dadingshan, and added 6 machine guns and 6 artillery pieces to 203 Heights.

It's just that the area of these hills is too small to deploy more troops, so Nogi Noshinori arranged 2 regiments and 1 artillery regiment on Pine Hill behind the 203 heights to reinforce the forward positions at any time. At the same time, Nogi Noshinori also set up his headquarters in Pine Hill to facilitate the close command of the battle.

It turned out that when Russia arranged the defense of Arthur, it took a lot of effort, and only on the 203 heights built a huge fortress and two bastions, the fort was surrounded by barbed wire with sharp thorns, and there were bunkers for reserves on the back slopes, which already meant some anti-diagonal formation. In addition, several fortifications composed of trenches, fortifications, fortifications, and bunkers were carefully built in the gap between Heights 203 and the nearby hills. More than 203 bunkers of various types were constructed on the 50 heights alone, each of which could accommodate 20-50 people.

At the beginning, the Japanese army also paid a very heavy price in order to conquer the 203 heights, and in order to destroy the fixed fortress, the Japanese army used the tactics of tunnel blasting, and completely relied on human pads to take down the 203 heights. However, most of the fortifications built by the original Russian army have been destroyed, and the giant fortress and two bastions on the 203 heights have been blown up, and now it is too late to repair, and the remaining ruins can only be used as infantry or artillery bunkers, but most of the various deep trenches, dark trenches, and chain trenches have been cleared out, so the entire position is also very complete.

Moreover, Nogi Noshinori arranged a large number of barbed wire fences on the high ground, which also absorbed the experience of the Japanese attack, and the Japanese army also suffered a lot of barbed wire when they conquered the 203 heights. Now Nogi Noshinori also wants to concoct it in accordance with the law, and it will also make the People's Army suffer.

After arranging the position, Nogi Noshinori stood on the 203 heights, and he was also quite self-respecting, imagining tomorrow's battle, the soldiers of the People's Army fell in front of their positions in rows, and the hardships they had suffered on this high ground at the beginning would be repaid by the People's Army. Therefore, Nogi Noshinori also slept very peacefully this night.

But the next morning, before the sky was fully light, Nogi Noshinori was awakened by a series of shelling sounds, although his location was more than 3000 meters away from the 203 heights, but he could still feel the ground trembling slightly, Nogi Noshinori is also a long-time battle-hardened person, and he could immediately tell that this was by no means a small and medium-caliber artillery such as 100 mm and 120 mm, at least above 200 mm caliber, and there were quite a few of them, at least 10 guns. Nogi Noshinori couldn't help but be secretly surprised that the overseas Chinese had only been ashore for one day, and they had pulled so many large-caliber artillery pieces ashore. Therefore, he hurriedly dressed and got up, and walked out of the tent to look in the direction of Heights 203, only to see that the sound of explosions continued to sound throughout the heights, and large clouds of explosion smoke rose.