The two sides shelled each other for about 30 minutes before the Japanese began to launch a ground offensive. However, about 600 meters close to the KPA defensive line, first the KPA mortars launched a bombardment, then machine guns and grenadiers, and then rifles, divided into three layers of firepower, and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army, the fire was dense and distinct, and it seemed that the Japanese artillery bombardment just now had almost no impact on the KPA.

However, at this point, Gonnosuke Yamamoto also knew that he could not retreat, and could only grit his teeth and withstand the blows of the People's Army, so he still ordered the troops to attack the positions of the People's Army.

It should be said that the morale of the Japanese army was quite high, and once the attack was also fought very resolutely, almost no one flinched, often sent up a squadron, a brigade, all of them fell on the way to attack, even if there were only a dozen people left, they did not retreat, they still charged forward without hesitation, until all of them fell for this.

But the high morale could not help the Japanese army break through the defense line of the People's Army, and the effect was on the contrary, bringing heavy casualties to the Japanese army, after all, in this era, the positional offensive is quite particular about tactical coordination and technology, not a brainless swarm of pigs, which has been fully confirmed in the Russo-Japanese War, but unfortunately the Japanese army did not learn enough lessons from the Russo-Japanese War.

Of course, it cannot be said that the Japanese are stupid or have low IQs, and the situation in other countries is actually similar to that of Japan, which has not fully learned from the Russo-Japanese War, and habitual thinking is not so easy to change. So much so that in the First World War 10 years later in the old time and space, the countries of the world faced the enemy's fortified positions, basically except for the use of human pads, there were not too many good methods, and the result could only fight one meat grinder-style battle after another, until the later stage of World War I, Britain used tanks on the battlefield on the Allies' side, and the Entente side had the Huthier tactics launched by Germany, so there was a little new tactical meaning, but because it had reached the later stage of the world war, these two new tactics were just emerging, and had not been fully developed and perfected, and the war was over, so it was not until the Second World WarThese new tactics really bear fruit.

It is not realistic to expect the Japanese army to make subversive tactical changes now, but the direct consequence is that the Japanese army pays a heavy price in casualties, although there are two times when they finally approached the positions of the People's Army, but they still failed to achieve the corresponding results, and just in the morning attack, the 22nd Division suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and fully defeated 1 brigade and 4 squadrons, so Ishimoto Shinroku also had to replace the 22nd Division with the 28th Division in the afternoon and continue the attack.

However, the performance of the 28th Division was not much better than that of the 22nd Division, on the contrary, the heavy casualties of the 22nd Division caused a subtle change in the mentality of the 28th Division. The commander of the division, Ishii Yoshiichi, was furious and shot two captains who failed to attack on the spot, which could be regarded as shocking the whole army, and the attack improved somewhat. However, no matter how much it improved, the attack on the KPA position did not change, and in the end, the Japanese had to stop the offensive after paying about 3,500 casualties.

On the third day, the Japanese attacked for another day, suffering more than 7,000 casualties, but still unable to break through the KPA defensive line.

In the three-day offensive, the Japanese army suffered a total of more than 22,000 casualties, including more than 7,800 casualties.

Fortunately, at this time, Shiroku Ishimoto kept a clear head, knowing that continuing the offensive would only allow the Japanese army to increase casualties in vain, and if he wanted to break through the defense line of the People's Army, it was not possible to blindly attack strongly, and more powerful firepower was needed, that is, more artillery was needed.

After receiving the report from Shiroku Ishinomoto, the Japanese War Department also attached great importance to it, and Bi Jing suffered 22,000 casualties in three days, although it was not as impressive as the astonishing record of 16,000 casualties in one day in the Lushun offensive and defensive battle, but it was also a very terrible loss. And Ishimoto Shinroku's requirements are not excessive, 5 divisions participated in the battle, and there were only more than 200 artillery pieces, which was indeed too little.

Fortunately, the War Department did not hope that five divisions would be able to break through the KPA positions at the beginning, so it had already set a plan to gather troops while fighting, although the KPA's defensive strength exceeded the War Department's expectations, but on the whole it was still within the plan, of course, if you want to break through the KPA's defensive line, you need more troops and more artillery. So the War Department also ordered Ishimoto Shinroku to temporarily stop the offensive, and at the same time seize the time to deploy troops.

Five days later, the Japanese reinforced 5 divisions and more than 500 artillery pieces, including 20 152-mm guns and 8 280-mm mortars. Although the distance between the diameters of this mortar is only 12 times and the firing range is less than 10,000 meters, after all, the caliber is large, so it is the trump card of Japan's attack. In the offensive and defensive battle of Lushun, the Japanese army finally won the victory and captured Lushun, on the one hand, it captured the 203 heights, on the other hand, it also relied on 16 of these 280 mm caliber mortars, and finally set up these 16 guns on the 203 heights, bombarded the city of Arthur and the port, only to destroy the last will of the Russian army to resist, surrender to the Japanese army, and now the Japanese army has finally reactivated this trump card.

However, the 16 280-millimeter mortars in the Far Eastern Theater were either destroyed in the war or became trophies of the People's Army; 16 were sunk by the Russian Vladivostok fleet on the way, and now there are only 12 of these guns left in Japan.

At this time, the Japanese army had gathered the strength of 10 divisions, and the number of artillery pieces had reached more than 700.

However, at this time, the War Department received urgent reports from various localities that the KPA had landed ashore in Akita, Naoetsu, Tottori, and Izumo to plunder and arrest them, causing great damage to these places, and asked the War Department to dispatch troops to resist them as soon as possible.

It turned out that this round of Japanese attacks caused more than 1,200 casualties to the People's Army, and after the Japanese army stopped attacking, Luo Yue also estimated that the Japanese army was regrouping its forces, so the scale of the new round of Japanese attacks would definitely be greater. However, Luo Yue was not worried about this, because the KPA's defense line had already withstood the test, and in the face of the KPA's fortifications, no matter how much troops the Japanese army invested, it was useless, not to mention that the KPA still had the support of the navy.

And Luo Yue considered that he could send Russian mercenaries out to sabotage. Because once the Japanese army gathered a large army to attack the KPA defense line, it would inevitably cause an empty force in other places, and it was the best time to send Russian mercenaries to attack. Of course, it is also possible that the Japanese army will send troops from the Noto Peninsula to attack the Russian mercenaries who have landed, so Luo Yue asked the country to transfer the two army divisions that remained in the country and waited, and once the Japanese army divided its troops from the front, the KPA took the initiative to attack the Japanese on the Noto Peninsula and attack the Japanese army, making it difficult for the Japanese army to take care of the head and tail.

Just after the Japanese army was assembled, the reinforcements of the People's Army also arrived on the Noto Peninsula, so Luo Yue ordered the Russian mercenaries to attack, this time a total of 12 regiments were attacked, landing at 4 locations respectively, 3 mercenary regiments at each landing site, plus a company of the People's Army, and sent 3 crossing soldiers to lead the team, with 2 radios and 3 drones. In this way, the strength of each landing site was about 7,000 men, which was enough to fight a brigade of the Japanese army. The four landing sites were Akita, Naoetsu, Tottori, and Izumo, all of which were coastal cities.

Sure enough, the KPA landings were very successful, and the garrisons at the landing sites were very empty, and after the KPA landed successfully, they immediately sent mercenary regiments to sabotage and plunder everywhere.

This did pose a difficult problem for the Japanese War Department, whether to attack the Noto Peninsula or destroy the other KPA units that had landed. At present, the Japanese Army has a total of 16 divisions, and 11 divisions were used to attack the Noto Peninsula. Osaka and other areas still need to retain a part of the army to garrison, which requires at least three divisions, so at present Japan can only send two divisions at most, but if they are assigned to four places, then each place can only send one brigade, such a force is obviously not enough, but if troops are drawn from the troops attacking the Noto Peninsula, it will weaken the force to attack the Noto Peninsula, and perhaps this is the goal of the People's Army, and the Japanese War Department is now very difficult.

After discussion, the War Department finally decided to attack the Noto Peninsula and to send a brigade to each of the KPA landing sites, with the goal of containing the KPA landing force and not to destroy or repel them. This is because the War Department believes that the KPA entrenched on the Noto Peninsula is the main force, and that the other landing troops are only partial divisions and only interfere with the Japanese army; as long as the KPA that can defeat or even annihilate the Noto Peninsula, then the KPA that has landed elsewhere will take the initiative to withdraw their troops, so attacking the Noto Peninsula is the most urgent task at present. Of course, in this way, in other places where the KPA landed, there would inevitably be major damage, and many Japanese would be plundered, but for the sake of the overall situation, they could only endure the necessary sacrifices, and the War Department still sent a brigade to each locality, hoping to reduce the losses in various places as much as possible.

However, in this way, the attack on the Noto Peninsula could not be dragged on indefinitely, and Japan had already invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this battle, so the War Department also issued a death order to Ishii Shinroku that he must achieve a decisive victory within seven days.