Immediately after the arrival of Lieutenant General Shinroku Ishimoto, he ordered the Japanese army to launch an attack on the KPA's defensive positions.

It should be said that Lieutenant General Shinroku Ishimoto and the Japanese troops who participated in the war had considerable expectations for this offensive; on the one hand, the Japanese army was generally determined to defend their homeland and expel the invasion; on the other hand, it was also because they succeeded in breaking through the KPA's outer defense line, which increased the confidence of the Japanese army. Therefore, at the beginning of the offensive, the morale and fighting spirit of the Japanese army were quite high.

But after the war began, the Japanese army realized that the defense of the KPA was far from being comparable to the front-line defense line. This time, it was composed of a combination of high and low positions, with a large number of hidden bunkers, firing points, and artillery positions in the rear, so that the KPA's defensive position formed a dense firepower network consisting of three layers of firepower from far, middle, and near, and with rifles, machine guns, grenadiers, mortars, and other light and heavy firepower.

The Japanese army's offensive formation is still like the Russo-Japanese War, mainly with dense charges, and the distance between soldiers is only 2-3 meters, and then they hold rifles, rush forward, and do not cooperate with each other, alternately advancing, and there is no fire suppression or cover behind them.

As a result, under the blow of the intensive firepower of the People's Army, the Japanese soldiers fell almost in pieces on the way to attack, but at this time the Japanese army's morale was still very high, full of courage at the cost of death, of course, from another point of view, in fact, there was the consciousness of being cannon fodder, so although they saw the heavy casualties of the army in front, the soldiers behind still did not change their faces, while chanting "Banzai", while continuing to attack, one after another, with flesh and blood to hit the steel, ** formed by the metal storm of the defense line.

It's just that although the courage of the Japanese army is commendable, it can't match the metal storm with flesh and blood after all, so the Japanese attack can only make its own casualty numbers continue to refresh the record again and again, in addition to making the soldiers continue to die.

During the whole day of attack, the Japanese army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and the number of people killed on the spot reached more than 2,500, but they did not even face the edge of the KPA defense line, and left the corpses of Japanese soldiers all over the ground at a distance of about 50 meters from the front of the KPA defense line.

Although Lieutenant General Shinroku Ishimoto did not want to break through the KPA's defense line on the first day, he expected that it should be a repeated drama with the KPA, so such a result was obviously unacceptable. However, Ishimoto Shinroku believed that this was the result of the lack of effort on the part of the attacking army, so he decided to change the attacking troops the next day, especially the 22nd Division, which had previously been awarded for meritorious service and propaganda as a typical example, to be sent to the battlefield to be in charge of the first wave of the attack.

As a result of the takeover of the remnants of the 23rd Division, the personnel lost by the 22nd Division in the first battle were replenished at this time, not only to full strength, but also to add an additional brigade to the establishment.

After receiving the task of attacking the KPA position the next day, the original members of the 22nd Division were of course full of fighting spirit, after all, they had won a battle, and they had also been commended by the War Department and the Emperor.

To be honest, during this period of time, the officers and men of the former 23 Division were under considerable pressure, and not only did the whole country unanimously criticize them, but even many family members wrote letters asking them to sever their relations, because their behavior made the whole family feel humiliated, so everyone felt that they could not hold their heads up, and in addition to the 53 officers who committed suicide by caesarean section, another 26 officers and men chose to commit suicide because they could not bear the pressure. Now that they have finally been given the opportunity to fight, many people have made up their minds to die on the battlefield in this battle to wash away the shame caused by the last war.

However, after all, the division commander Gonnosuke Yamamoto was a middle-level commander who participated in the Russo-Japanese War, although he did not participate in the offensive and defensive battles of Arthur, but the cruel process of that war had already spread throughout the army, as a profound lesson, so Gonnosuke Yamamoto knew very well that the war had developed to this day, and it was impossible to win the war by pushing the number of people alone, because it was when the enemy had a perfect defensive position and sufficient troops, the offensive and defensive battles of Lushun had confirmed this, the combat effectiveness of the People's Army was stronger than that of the Russian army, and the battle scene on the first day Gonnosuke Yamamoto had also watched, and it was not that the attacking troops did not work hard, but the firepower of the People's Army was too strongThis kind of battle cannot be won by numbers or courage alone, but must have sufficient fire support and suppression.

So Gonnosuke Yamamoto asked Shiroku Ishimoto that he must give himself enough fire support to fight this battle. And Yamamoto Gonnosuke's request, Lieutenant General Ishimoto Shinroku did not refuse, after all, he also saw the battle on the first day, and he basically received all kinds of information about the offensive and defensive battle of Lushun, and remembered that at that time he even scolded Nogi Xidian a few words, "Stupid, stupid, why don't you use artillery, sacrifice precious soldiers in vain, etc."

However, there are really not many artillery pieces of the Japanese army now, there are 5 divisions and regiments concentrated here, but there are only more than 200 guns, and most of them are small and medium-caliber guns such as 75 mm and 88 mm, and there are only more than 50 guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and the largest caliber is only 120 mm, a total of 10 guns. Most of the artillery produced in Japan had already been shipped to the Far East, Korea and other battlefields, and although there were many arsenals in Japan, there was a lack of steel, so it was impossible to increase production capacity.

Japan's resources are very poor, most of the industrial raw materials are basically supplied from abroad, it is iron ore, most of it is purchased from China, mainly the iron ore of Daye Iron Mine, sold to Japan by Hanyang Iron Works, after all, China's iron ore resources are abundant, and close to Japan, so Japan naturally buys iron ore from China, at first Japan is only a general supply and marketing purchase, but Japan is not worried that iron ore resources are controlled by China, so they take advantage of the opportunity of poor management of Hanyang Iron Works, through loans to control the equity of Hanyang Iron Works, in the old time and space, Japan finally fully controlled the Hanyang Iron Works in the 20s, making this the largest iron and steel complex in modern China and a representative enterprise of the Westernization Movement eventually became Japan's iron ore supply base.

However, in time and space, the East China government blocked Japan's shipping lines, cut off China's iron ore supply, although Japan also urgently purchased iron ore from Britain and the United States and other countries, but Britain and the United States controlled the export of resources more strictly, and the road is long, the cost is large, it is impossible to make up for the loss of China's iron ore, although Japan can also be said to have tried everything for steel raw materials, collect scrap steel and scrap iron from the people, and call the people to donate iron items at home, etc., but for the war, it is just a drop in the bucket, so after the iron ore in stock is used up, Japan's arsenals can only reduce production capacity, and now the general operating rate is not more than 30%. 。

And the limited steel production capacity can not be used to make artillery, as well as rifles, bullets, shells, etc., so now the Japanese artillery in addition to a small amount of inventory, basically purchased from the United States, but to a country of Japan's size, it is naturally not enough to rely on the purchase, the current total number of artillery in the country is only more than 1,200, and in the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army invested nearly 2,000 artillery pieces in total. The Japanese army attacking the Noto Peninsula was able to allocate more than 200 artillery pieces, which was quite impressive.

Shinroku Ishimoto invested more than 180 artillery pieces for the second day of the attack in one go, including 40 guns of 100 mm caliber or more, and 8 guns of 120 mm caliber.

Although Gonnosuke Yamamoto was not too satisfied with the fire support he received, the current situation of the Japanese army was like this, and he couldn't expect too much, so there was nothing to complain about, and the small and medium-caliber artillery had a short range and little power, but the advantage was that it was easy and flexible, and it could push forward and attack with the infantry, which was not necessarily not easy to use. Although Gonnosuke Yamamoto has rich experience in actual combat, he was only a wing commander in the Far Eastern battlefield, and his vision and pattern were very limited, and he had only fought with the Russian army, and had no experience in fighting with the People's Army, and his understanding of the war was still completely at the level of fighting against the Russian army. Of course, this is also the biggest shortcoming of the Japanese army as a whole.

So on the second day, the Japanese army first carried out a fierce fire attack on the positions of the People's Army, in fact, the defense line of the People's Army is about 10 kilometers long, and more than 160 artillery pieces are of course impossible to cover all the positions of the People's Army, so they can only choose three key areas to strike, this is also the economy summarized by Ishimoto Shinroku from yesterday's battle, the stalls of the all-out offensive are too open, and the firepower of the Japanese army is insufficient, so it is better to concentrate forces and select a few key areas to break through, once it can break through the positions of the People's Army, and then expand to both sides。

The Japanese artillery roared on the position, frantically pouring into the position of the People's Army, and the position of the People's Army also counterattacked from time to time, mainly using 100 mm and 120 mm mortars, this time the People's Army landed in the operation, without artillery, heavy weapons are mortars, of which 100 mm and 120 mm mortars are weapons that can hit 5,000 meters away, of course, the People's Army also has naval gun fire support from naval warships.

However, this time Luo Yue did not order naval support, after all, the Japanese army's firepower is not strong, and the people's army's fortifications have considerable anti-artillery bombardment capabilities, the general small and medium-caliber artillery to the people's army's fortifications basically do not have much lethality, can cause a greater threat to the people's army's fortifications, only 120 mm caliber artillery, but this caliber artillery, the Japanese army is too little equipment, not a scale advantage, the people's army can withstand such a degree of shelling, so Luo Yue believes that there is no need to send naval support at this time, this card is still left for later to play, just ordered 100 mm and 120 mm mortars to return fire, of course, it did not require mortars to destroy the Japanese artillery positions, but only to let the Japanese army know that the People's Army still has the power to counterattack, and to have some scruples.