At this moment, in order to seize Lushun and seize the 203 heights, Japan is desperate. Emperor Meiji also issued an edict to the Third Army at the right time, encouraging the soldiers to capture Lushun at all costs. Nogi Noshinori, the commander-in-chief of the Third Army, assured the whole army that, if necessary, he would personally lead the reserve into charge. Since the start of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Army Standing Divisions have been sent to the front one after another, and the only active division remaining on the mainland is the Seventh Division reorganized from the Tuntian Army, and the Japanese High Command decided to immediately send the Seventh Division to Northeast China to participate in the battle to capture Arthur. In this way, there are only reserve veterans in Japan itself. Emperor Meiji wrote a poem and said, "Men are strong-willed, and they are eager to go to the battlefield, and state affairs should be shared." Leaving the courtyard silent, the poor lonely old man was busy farming. ”

Wu Chenxuan cleared the advance position close to the 203 Heights in the northwest for them, and Nogi Noshinori, who received reinforcements, put 50,000 Japanese troops into a strong attack in a desperate way, and the main target was the 203 Heights, the core of the Russian defense system. As a pioneer is more than 3,000 people wearing two white cloth belts on their bodies, that is, the predecessor of the meat * bullet attack commonly used by the Japanese army in World War II, but unfortunately the grenade * bullet has not yet been popularized to these ordinary Japanese soldiers, these meat + bullets had to be aggrieved to hang a linen wrapped explosive bag, relying on the fuse * cable to ignite, in the mud-covered battlefield with an astonishing high rate of blindness, many meat * bullets were able to save their lives, of course, more is to keep the whole corpse, If Wu Chenxuan, a profiteer, knew that he might be able to clear the excess grenades and shells of the Wuyi New Army in front of the position on the spot, and it would not be necessarily. Before the marching team, Nogi personally saw them off and encouraged them to sacrifice their lives for the emperor. Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the standing team secretly approached the Russian positions in a dense formation, in an attempt to break through the forward positions of the Russian troops by surprise. However, the Russian army, which was caught off guard by the new army of Wuyi, would not make the same mistake again, in fact, the Russian army, which had been on duty, had already discovered the movements of the Japanese army. As the advance team approached, the Russian troops suddenly turned on their searchlights and met the enemy with ferocious fire. Although the marching team was valiant, they could no longer move forward and were defeated one after another. Nogi Noshinori organized several more attacks in a row, but they were all repulsed by the well-prepared Russian army. Lieutenant General Nogi, who is at best at the level of an infantry squadron leader, has no way to deal with the Russian troops who are cowering in the trenches and bunkers of the 203 heights, except for organizing one infantry brigade after another to send them to death.

Heights 203 originally had a large fortress and two bastions, surrounded by barbed wire with sharp thorns. Several fortifications were also carefully built in the gap between the high ground and the nearby hills. The hills near Heights 203 also had a group of forts and trench lines to defend against Japanese attacks. The Russian army repelled the Japanese attacks again and again with favorable terrain and solid fortifications, and easily beat the Japanese soldiers in black uniforms to the flesh and blood, and the remnants of the Russian army who retreated from the forward positions gradually regained their confidence in the experience of abusing the monsters, and the strength of the Russian army was further enhanced.

After a day and a night of hard fighting, Nogi ordered the Japanese army to concentrate all their forces and attack the 203 heights continuously in a unit. At that time, the battle was extremely fierce, and the Japanese soldiers all over the mountains rushed to the top of the mountain, round after round, without gaps, and both sides could no longer distinguish the batch of shock waves. On the hillside, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers fell under the fire of artillery, machine guns, rifles, and grenades, while many more were charging non-stop with corpses and wounded soldiers, and there was blood and flesh everywhere. Nogi Noshinori ordered the artillery to continuously shell the Russian fortifications, even at the expense of injuring the Japanese soldiers who were approaching the enemy's fortifications. Bartrit, the author of the book "Lushun", described the 203 heights at this time as follows: "Since the French attacked the great fortress of Borodino, it is probably not before have we seen so many dead bodies piled up in such a small space. The dead bodies of the Japanese are very ugly because their skin turns green, giving them a very unnatural appearance. None of the dead bodies were intact, and in the piles of shrapnel and broken knives, there were fragments of limbs and skeletons everywhere. ”

After three days of bloody battles, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were killed and wounded, two divisions were disabled, and even the Fourth Division, which had always been very cheating and slippery, suffered one and a half wings, plus the Eighth Wing, which was stubbornly defending the 322 heights, and the Fourth Division had one and a half wings left. In addition to the casualties, what made Nogi even more unacceptable was that the Japanese Third Army had become depressed and abnormal in terms of mental state, and even on the night of the third day, because a wounded soldier committed suicide with a gun and did not grasp the gun and accidentally injured his compatriots (the Japanese rifle has always been extremely long, and it is very difficult for the infantry to commit suicide with a rifle, and they must use their toes to pull the trigger. Instead, he was shot with a pistol by a seemingly normal but hysterical Cao Chang, a wounded soldier who was missing a leg and was seriously infected. But the Cao Chang was crushed to the last string, and he did not hesitate to use the heavy machine gun at the entrance of the wounded barracks to shoot a long point at the wounded barracks, in order to stop the crazy Cao Chang from doing evil in time, several sentries immediately killed Cao Chang with rifles, but the instinct of the infantry was to be alert when they heard the gunshots, and this burst of random guns could be regarded as causing a big disaster, and the Japanese soldiers who had been sleeping were awakened, and the psychological pressure of life and death broke out at this moment. The Japanese army actually broke out the camp roar, the Japanese army camped in the squad, and the surrounding squad began to exchange fire, the officers and non-commissioned officers who stood up to stop were killed indiscriminately, and finally the battalion roar spread to the artillery, the artillery guns are few, but there are cannons, in the face of a group of crazy infantry artillery who only know how to kill, there is no need to be polite, the cannon bombarded his mother, for a time the Japanese camp was a pot of porridge, and the turtle that had been beaten did not recognize Wang Ba. Nogi and the other high-ranking officers were nearly affected, and had to retreat hastily, away from the camp. Finally, a staff officer with some contents in his head came up with a way to fire flares and blow the rallying horn, and the Japanese troops who were awakened by the flares and horns got rid of the roar of the camp and regained their calm, but hundreds of Japanese soldiers fell under the muzzles and even bayonets of their own people in a daze, which has to be said to be very tragic.

"Chief of Staff, what are the losses of our army?" Nogi, whose beard was white overnight, seemed to have become a walking corpse at this time, and only the identity of the commander supported him, mechanically fulfilling his obligations.

"Your Excellency, Commander, in the roar of the camp last night, we lost three thousand seven hundred..."

"Ying Xiao, no, Your Excellency Chief of Staff of Yidizhi. Obviously, it was the Russian army that took advantage of the bitter fighting of our army to launch a large-scale counterattack, but fortunately, the officers and men of our imperial army fought bloodily and repelled the decisive counterattack of the Russian army. Please Your Majesty and the Army Province to send reinforcements as soon as possible, and our army will surely conquer the 203 heights and annihilate the remnants of the Russian army in one go. After saying so much in one breath, Nogi's spirit seemed to be exhausted at once, and he sat down in a chair and gasped, and after a while, his emotions gradually calmed down, and he raised his head and asked: "That young man is very anxious, I don't know whose son he is?" ”

"Uh," I didn't expect that after reversing black and white for a while, the chief general actually remembered the meritorious man just now, and his thinking jumped, Lieutenant General Ichi Chikosuke didn't understand it at once, but he quickly remembered the name of the staff officer, "He is a peasant kid, he doesn't have a samurai background, but he is diligent and intelligent, this time he came to our Third Army as a midshipman officer of Lu University to observe and study, it seems to be called Ishihara or something, ah, yes, it's Lieutenant Ishihara Waner." ”

"Really? It's really an interesting little guy, I don't know if he's there" Nogi seemed to want to meet the little staff officer, but before he could say it, he was interrupted by a staff officer's report.

"What does this mean? Is the blood of our officers and men of the Third Army in vain? Some people can't wait to come and pick the fruit. Nogi slapped the bookcase and flipped the teacup off the table, with a chaotic clangling of bells. It turned out that the staff officer had a letter and telegram from the Ministry of the Army, which seemed to be an ordinary contact letter, just to inform the Third Army that the chief of the general staff of the Manchurian Army, Kodama Gentaro, was going to come to the front line to inspect and ask Commander Nogi to prepare for reception, but considering that Nogi's military rank was still a pitiful two gold stars, and Kodama Gentaro was on a par with the chief of the General Staff, when he came down from the Manchurian Army, he could completely rely on the majesty of Dashan Iwa to point fingers and make Nogi, who was also a lieutenant general, a puppet. Nogi has already paid for the life of a son, how can he be willing to let someone else pick peaches.

Like a tiger trapped in a cage, Nogi paced back and forth in the command post, trying to give an account before Kodama arrived, but it was easier said than done. The Japanese army is already at the end of its strong crossbow, and it has just experienced such a thing as camp roaring, so it is time to thank God for the aunt if the morale does not become negative.

"How many troops do we have left to put into the battlefield now?" Nogi suddenly stopped and asked.

"There are about 43,000 people, and there are no problems with artillery, but there are fewer guns."

"It doesn't matter. Artillery is fine, and rifles don't do much here. Nogi smiled mysteriously, "Maybe you don't need to bother with His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff." Let him test the majesty of our Third Army in seizing the 203rd Heights. ”

"This...", the chief of staff of Yi Dizhi really doubted whether the commander's thinking was normal, the position that more than 50,000 people had not been able to capture just now, and now his battalion almost did not collapse, and the commander actually said that the enemy was broken today, it was simply a crazy rhythm.

"What about those bunkers and that giant fortress?" As the chief of staff, Ijichi can't get Nogi not to give up treatment, but the problem must always be raised and made clear, the commander is crazy, and he, the chief of staff, can't follow the two together.

"It's okay, we have a kid who can help us with that." Nogi's orange-skin-like face actually revealed a hint of naughty cunning and pride, as if a beloved toy could not be given to a partner who competed with him for a toy anyway, even if it was given to an outsider, it was better than letting a friend get it.

"Could it be that the commander is talking about them" Now the chief of staff of the Ijichi understood Nogi's thoughts, but thinking back at the proportion of casualties in the attack, it seems that these Qing people have mastered a very efficient offensive mode

According to the usual pig's feet, Wu Chenxuan didn't sneeze and shed tears because these two old foxes were worried about themselves, in fact, they were anxiously waiting for a British freighter in the west of Jinzhou City, and they really didn't have time to take care of these two treasures.