Section 165 Nogi is ordered to the Third Army
The current Swift is not equipped with a machine gun synchronous fire device, so it is not equipped with a course machine gun. During the attack, the pilot in the rear cabin stood up and strafed the ground with the machine gun above the wings of the plane over the propeller, striking a line of fire in front of the plane's flight direction, and breaking everything in the way of the plane's path in two. The pilot in front saw the opportunity and pulled the handle, and two rows of more than a dozen 60 mortar * gun * shells with double safety were released from the pylons on both sides of the cabin at the same time, and staggered to the ground, and a puff of smoke suddenly rose from the ground, and the severed limbs and gun parts were wrapped in the fireworks and flew out.
At this time, not to mention the Russian army, even the armies of other powers have never seen the power of aircraft ground attacks, and the hordes of Russian troops blew up their nests at that time, and even the officers were crazy to dodge everywhere, and no one dared to attack them directly. Wu Luzhen looked at the Russian army that had no fighting spirit that was beaten, thinking of the old Maozi who had just attacked desperately like a fierce god, and couldn't help but sigh at the whimsy of the general seat, which actually made the armies of the great powers so vulnerable. But the sigh is also a matter of a moment, after all, it is still in the hinterland of the Russian army, after breaking through the Russian defense line, more than 1,000 infantry of two infantry battalions quickly retreated towards the southern plains, and even the Russian troops who had already run away and forgot their weapons were not captured. As for the Russian army regrouping after a while, venting all their humiliation and anger on the 8th Wing on the 322nd Heights and a part of the Japanese rearguard troops intercepted by the 214th Heights, the Osaka traders are now in a tragedy.
The words are divided into two ends, and the single table is one. When the Russian army and the Japanese Second Army were fighting between Jinzhou and Lushun, three more divisions were arranged in Japan to land in Liaodong and form the Japanese Third Army, and the commander of this army was the great god Nogi Noshinori, who was worshipped by later generations of Japanese soldiers. It is said that after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Nogi Noshinori happened to have cultivated his shameless kung fu to a certain level, so he begged with a shy face, and obtained the fourth opportunity to return to his old business through his wife's face of the emperor and empress, and made up for the lack of the commander of the Guards Division. This general who has made a comeback three times has also set a record in the history of the Japanese army, and the frequency of his comeback is no less than that of some third-tier stars in later generations.
Originally, according to the strategic deployment of the Japanese army, the capture of Arthur was the top priority of the entire military operation. The Japanese believed that as long as Arthur remained in the hands of the Russians, the Russian fleet would threaten the Japanese sea lines of communication at any time, and therefore, it must be captured. On 31 May, after capturing Dalian and gaining a new supply base, the Japanese army accelerated towards Lushun.
In order to conquer Lushun as soon as possible, the Japanese army headquarters specially dispatched troops and established the Third Army, with Nogi Noshinori, who has always been known for his bravery, as the commander and took charge of the main attack on Lushun. This later Japanese god of war served as the commander of the Japanese Third Army with the rank of lieutenant general of the Japanese Army, thus becoming one of the main generals of the Japanese army in the land battlefield of the Russo-Japanese War. Before setting off this time, he actually prepared 3 coffins of his own to show his determination to die on the battlefield with his two sons and serve the emperor. In fact, this allusion is completely imitating the custom of carrying a coffin to the expedition in Chinese history, but Nogi will not admit it, but thinks that it is his heroic act that moves the heavens and the earth, so that he can win the honor of conquering the world.
On June 6, this guy led the Third Army to land in the vicinity of Yanda'ao (now Hou'er Rock) in Dalian, and set up a headquarters in Beipaoyazi, Zhoushuizi. He then commanded the Japanese army to advance southwest through Nanguanling to compress the Russian defensive line. During this period, because his eldest son Nogi Katsunori was killed in the Japanese army attacking the Russian army position in Nanshan, Jinzhou, he learned the news, and for a moment it seemed that tears were in his eyes, but when his wife Shizuko learned about this, she actually sent him a telegram saying, 'I am very happy that Katsunori died in battle'.
Nogi immediately went to Nanshan to mourn his fallen son, and also wrote a poem: "The mountains and moons turn desolate, and the bloody new battlefield is ten miles." The horses are silent, and the sun is set outside the city of Jinzhou. The level of the poem is not evaluated, but this kind of fake public and private attitude of mourning for his son, rather than hearing it, really made the imperial army of later generations scoff. At that time, the General Staff Headquarters of the Japanese Army, based on the experience of capturing Lushun in two hours during the First Sino-Japanese War, relaxed the time by 10 times and instructed Nogi to occupy Lushun in one week. Japan also believed that if Nogi went into battle, he would definitely win, and the occupation of Arthur was just around the corner. Nogi Noshinori himself seems to think the same way, and he doesn't want Lushun to die, and his eldest son is mourned first, which makes him even more heartbroken.
Originally, history should have started in late June 1904, Nogi with three divisions of the Third Army, two field artillery brigades with a total of 56,000 troops and 386 artillery, launched three general attacks on the 33,000 Russian troops in Lushun, which lasted 150 days, the Japanese wolf rushed to the pig, flesh and blood flew sideways, Nogi used a sea of people, tunnels, night attacks, and even organized 3,500 people with white cloth on their heads to charge, all ended in failure, killing more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers, even his second son Nogi Honori was also killed in battle, Lushun is still in the hands of the Russian army.
But the Japanese people are blessed, because Wu Chenxuan, an old friend of the Japanese people, plans to take advantage of the fact that tens of thousands of Russian troops are still fighting in Jinzhou, to give the Russian army a black tiger to dig out their hearts, so that the third army does not have to take flesh and blood to fill the Russian army's defense line with one pillbox and one trench.
In fact, after the fall of Dalian, the Tsarist government sternly warned the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, General Kuropatkin, not to lose Lushun, because the loss of Lushun would put the Russian army in an almost irreversible desperate situation. In order to change the situation of the Russian army in Artun, Kuropatkin ordered Mukden to send a corps of troops to support Arthur. However, on June 14, the army was defeated in a battle with the Japanese Second Army, which was responsible for blocking Russian reinforcements, and the 4th Division of the partial division north of Jinzhou was also disabled by the Wuyi New Army and the Japanese Second Army, which made the Russian army in Lushun fall into an even more isolated situation. At this time, the Russian army had not lost the defensive position outside Arthur, but due to Stessel's shamelessness and stupidity, nearly half of the elite of the defenders was taken away by him to pursue the Japanese army, and they had been trapped on the periphery of Jinzhou, and were made into sandwich biscuits by the 322 heights and the outer defense line of Jinzhou. Of course, if he is determined to lose his pawn and protect the car, he can still get out of trouble, after all, the Eighth Wing stationed on the 322 heights has almost no support except for the fire support of a field artillery wing, and it is simply powerless to prevent the retreat of the Russian army, but for Stessel, retreat means being removed from his post and investigated, plus the crime of concealing military orders, he will almost certainly be executed by military law.
The strength of the current defenders of Arthur has dropped to less than 30,000 men, 435 artillery pieces and 42 machine guns. Kuropatkin's strategy was to hold on to Lushun and wait for reinforcements to come and relieve the siege. Of course, there seems to be little hope for reinforcements, but the Japanese Second Army is almost semi-disabled, and it is estimated that the time to relaunch the Battle of Arthur is not a matter of thirty or fifty days.
At this time, under the city of Arthur, the crazy two armies vowed to defeat their opponents at all costs, and the Japanese army regarded the gains and losses of Lushun as the key to the success or failure of the whole war, while the Russian troops who held the city were in a situation of fighting on their backs, so their competition here was very fierce from the beginning. Although the Russians were repeatedly defeated and retreated, their stubborn resistance with their strong fortifications inflicted heavy casualties on the attacking Japanese troops. In the battle for Nanshan on the outskirts of Lushun, it took the Japanese army a day to conquer this projectile place at the cost of more than 4,400 casualties. When this casualty data was delivered to the Japanese base camp, the Japanese generals were taken aback, thinking that there was an error in the front-line report, and that a zero had been added to it due to a clerical error. On the surface, under the city of Arthur, the strength of the Japanese and Russian armies was almost the same, each had its own strengths, and the officers and men of both sides were also known for their ferocity and tenacity, but the battle plans of the two armies were opposite. The Japanese army practiced the strategy and tactics of active attack, while the Russian army carried out the operational policy of passive defense. The bigger gap is still in foreign aid, and the foreign aid of the Russian army is almost cut off. The Japanese army was lucky to have a little partner, although they did not have the ability to face up to the more than 3,000 pigtailed soldiers, but soon they were made to understand a sentence by a message "At that moment, my friends and I were stunned."
"How so?" Nogi Noshinori held the information that had just been reported by the intelligence staff officer in his hand, and he was already shocked and speechless, "The Manchurian Volunteer Army of the Qing State has broken through the northwest defense line of the Russian army and entered under the 203 heights. ”
It turned out that in order to eliminate the main force of the Russian Pacific Fleet from the sea, the Japanese Combined Fleet had already surrounded the port of Arthur. Wu Chenxuan got in touch with the Oshima staff officer who was on duty in the Combined Fleet, Wu Chenxuan was not the Japanese Army, and there was no psychological barrier to asking for help from the Navy. Admiral Dongxiang of the Combined Fleet also felt that it was not a bad thing to clear the perimeter of the Arthur fortress as soon as possible and let the army force the Pacific Fleet out, so he let two ironclads and two offshore gunboats get close to the northwest coast of Arthur. Thanks to the defense map of the Lushun fortress provided by Wu Chenxuan through Oshima, the combined fleet was well aware of the range and dead spots of Lushun's coastal defense artillery, and hid outside the firing range to provide fire support to the pillboxes and trenches on the periphery, without any pressure.
In the sky, the swifts of the standard air force are observing and calibrating, on the sea are more than 60 main guns and auxiliary guns of four warships for fire support, and on the ground are 3,000 volunteers in battle formations, using grenadiers and sniper rifles to carry out roll call according to the steps of targeted elimination under the support of artillery fire. The main force of the Russian army was originally attracted to the frontal defense line, which is close to the 203 heights, which is the strongest defensive area with artillery fire, so the Russian infantry only sent a regiment of troops plus one or two thousand temporary mobilization armed civilians, but I didn't expect the Japanese naval guns to cut off the route of support. It can only rely on three or four thousand people to make a hard top.
There were basically no people in the trenches, and if they dared to stick their heads out more than an inch, they would be shot in the head by a rifle, and at the slightest sign of activity, they would be blown out by grenadiers. There are not many civilians who dare to shoot at each other with guns, and the regiment of the Russian army is also trembling, the machine gunners are dead one after another, and the firing ports of the pillboxes are painted dark red by the splattered plasma, which is reflected in the muzzle flame of the Maxim machine gun, flashing with a strange red light. In the afternoon, after more than half of the casualties, the armed civilians collapsed first, I don't know who threw down their rifles first, shouted and jumped out of the trenches and ran to the rear, as if hearing the trumpet, the civilians of the brigade screamed frantically and threw away all their loads, and ran towards the 203 highland defense line in groups. Immediately afterwards, the regiments of the Russian army also collapsed, and the soldiers and officers of the Russian army also jumped out of the trenches and pillboxes one after another, and joined the fleeing ranks.