The white-haired Nogi and the division commanders of the two divisions were solemnly holding binoculars watching the progress of the second shock wave of the Japanese army, the speed was not fast, but they firmly pushed the Russian army back. There was no counterattack by the Russian army and pushed back the Japanese troops who did not gain a firm foothold. Nogi, who was greatly gratified, said to the staff officers beside him: "It seems that the Russian army's strength has run out, and it will be able to overcome its achievements today." I don't know if Kodama will be able to catch up with our celebration banquet. But Nogi's heart is not so relaxed, after all, the giant fortress on the core position is still in the hands of the Russian army, if it is not able to overcome it before dark today, then tomorrow after Kodama arrives, it is really hard to say who this ripe peach will belong to.

The actual commander of the battle at the front was the chief of staff of the Third Army, Lieutenant General Kosuke Iji, who was born in the Satsuma Domain, and assigned Ijichi to Nogi as the chief of staff, firstly, in order to have a young Zhuang faction who learned from the experience of German modernization to supplement Nogi's shortcomings, and also to grasp the balance between the Satsuma Domain and the Choshu Domain. However, this lieutenant general Ijichi was very stubborn and often worked against the base camp, and Nogi himself blindly accommodated the chief of staff due to his lack of experience in commanding modern operations, resulting in heavy losses in the early stage. In a sense, Nogi was pitted by the people of the Satsuma Domain.

Now this young Zhuang who studied in Germany was shocked by a group of Qing people wearing floral clothes and combing big braids, but he didn't expect that the highland attack actually made these guys fight. To be precise, the two wings in the attack were compressed under the fire of the Russian army, and those Qing ** people used accurate rifle shooting, weird grenadier projectiles, and small hand-thrown bombs thrown from their hands from time to time, and the bunkers that the artillery fire could not reach were all suppressed by these things. The Qing ** people also formed a group of more than a dozen people, including grenadiers, precision rifles, and the kind of Madsen light machine gun that Denmark had just produced. After the Japanese army paid a heavy price for the rash advance, the remaining soldiers unconsciously surrounded those Qing** people, using their machine guns and grenadiers as the tactical core, rifles only became a supplement to these firepower, and the infantry often became the role of cleaning the battlefield. This kind of inadvertently formed half-squad-sized battle group is more effective in attacking in this terrain than the swarm charge of the entire squad. One after another Russian bunkers were blown up, the Russian casualties rose sharply, and the follow-up troops wanted to reinforce but were suppressed by the 105 howitzers and 75 mountain guns in the rear, and the grenadiers joined in from time to time to fill in the leaks, and as a result, the counter-charge of an infantry battalion of the Russian army was turned into an infantry company before it could be moved, and it was unable to counterattack at all.

Finally, at about 1:30 p.m., with the fire support of the Volunteers, a squadron of the Japanese finally landed on the Russian giant fortress on Heights 203. At this time, the fortress had become a ruin, and only one Russian was still alive in the fortress, and when the Rising Sun Flag was raised in the ruins of the fortress, Lieutenant General Kosuke Ichi breathed a sigh of relief, he felt that the Russian army had gone in general and that the fall of Heights 203 was already a matter of time.

But the Russians were never so weak and deceitful, and when the Japanese occupied the giant fortress, in the other Russian fortifications on the 203 heights, the Japanese fought with the Russian soldiers in a white-knuckle battle, with bayonets, rifle butts, stones, and even teeth and hands. In the face of the Russian army who howled like a man and a bear and picked up the Mosinagan rifle and rushed towards the second and third targets, these newcomers who had just entered the battle formation meticulously followed the steps, first took out the defensive grenade, pulled out the pin and threw it at the Russian formation, and then shot out the loaded bullets in the rifle, as well as a wild sweep by the Madsen machine gunner. After throwing away the rifle and facing the smiling and stabbing Russian army, the soldiers of the new army of Wuyi fearlessly pulled out the six-sub cannon in the holster of their thighs, and the non-commissioned officers carried 20 Mauser pistols with a large capacity magazine, and even more, some soldiers even carried a short-barrel double-barreled hunting gun produced by a standard machinery factory, these melee weapons began to shoot frantically for a minute in the face of the Russian army's bayonet charge, and one by one the Russian soldiers fell on the road of the charge with unwilling eyes, but no one cared about their feelings, Occasionally, a few lucky people can rush to the front, and they can't threaten the soldiers of the Wuyi New Army, because those useless Japanese soldiers finally have a stage to play, and the ratio of more than a dozen to one is more porridge and less, and after a while, these Russian troops are stabbed into a colander, and there are only a handful of fallen Japanese troops and Wuyi New Army.

The hand-to-hand combat ended before it began, and this result made many Japanese officers confused, and the swordsmanship they had practiced for many years had become an ornament. After all, if the opponent is a double spearman like the Wuyi New Army, before the opponent consumes the capacity of the pistol magazine, he will already be beaten into a honeycomb, and any superb stabbing skills are floating clouds. However, now the Japanese army can't take care of sighing, it is the gap when the morale of the Russian army is low and the strength is not good, and the ancient admonition of taking advantage of his illness to kill him is very reasonable, and it is the royal road to quickly occupy the 203 heights.

Under the escort of the Wuyi New Army, the Japanese army finally occupied the 203 heights before the sun set. In this strong attack, another three or four thousand Japanese officers and soldiers were killed, but the Russian army was annihilated no less than 7,000 people, and the defenders suffered more casualties than the attackers, which is not a small miracle. The new army also had dozens of people killed and hundreds of soldiers were seriously wounded, but the main infantry force did not go into battle, but only technical arms (such as artillery, grenadiers, snipers, machine gunners, etc.) participated in the battle, and the casualties of ordinary soldiers were much smaller. However, although these technical arms are in embryonic form, the proportion of non-commissioned officers in them is also nearly half, and this loss makes Wu Chenxuan secretly distressed.

After half a month of tug-of-war in the 203 offensive and defensive battle, the curtain finally came to an end at the last moment under Nogi's command, and Kodama hurried only to catch up with Nogi Noshinori's celebration banquet. Faced with the casualty figure of more than 13,000 people, Nogi Noshinori also wrote a poem and sighed while being proud: "I am ashamed of my father, how many people are still triumphant today." He immediately renamed the 203 Heights as "Erling Mountain", which is homophonic to 203, to pay tribute to the Japanese soldiers who died here. After the Battle of Lushun, Nogi commanded the Japanese army to build a tall cannonball-shaped monument and wrote a poem: Erling Mountain is difficult to climb, and it is difficult for men to overcome fame. The iron-blooded mountain shape was changed, and 10,000 people looked up to Erling Mountain. Of course, that's all for later.

After the capture of Heights 203, in fact, the defeat of the Russian army in Arthur was certain, and the Japanese army was able to bombard the Russian Pacific Fleet anchored in Port Arthur with fortress artillery. At this time, Nogi was still gathering troops in a worrying manner, preparing to fight to the death with the rest of the Russian army. But the Russian army had no fighting spirit, and Nogi soon received a letter of surrender from the Russian army unexpectedly. Less than a week after the Battle of 203, the commander of the Russian garrison in Arthur Fortress, Anatoly ? Mikhailovich? Stexel sent military envoys, holding white flags, to deliver the instrument of surrender to the Japanese army. The next day, Nogi Noshinori sent the chief of staff of the Third Army, Tomosuke Iji, to reach an agreement with the Russian army, and Lushun was occupied by the Japanese army. As a result, Commander Nogi Noshinori, who was protected by Emperor Meiji, completed the capture of the Lushun fortress with dignity as the commander of the victorious country, accepted the surrender of the Russian army, and wrote the famous lyrics of "Meeting the Naval Division", saying that Nogi was majestic and profound, showing generosity and kindness to the generals of the defeated army, and being polite, while the commander of the Russian army sincerely praised his martial arts. The lyrics were not only selected into elementary school textbooks, but also composed into a song, which was widely circulated, creating a majestic and benevolent image of the Japanese military god. Originally, Kodama Gentaro, who played a key role in history, purely played soy sauce and returned to the headquarters of the Manchurian Army in a gloomy manner, although Oyama Iwa was not angry with Nogi Noshinori's bad performance, but seeing that he could independently command the Japanese army to capture the Lushun Fortress, he had to pinch his nose and ask for credit for him.

As for the Japanese army, having occupied the 203 heights, they actually had the initiative on the Arthur battlefield. From the 203 heights, the Japanese army soon brought in the fortress heavy artillery and began to bombard the Russian ships in the port and the Russian military facilities in the city, so the Russian Pacific Fleet was faced with the choice of either being sunk in the port or leaving the port to throw itself into the net. With the intervention of Chief of Staff Kodama, the Japanese army changed the path of brave assault and became a battalion step by step, plus the infantry of the two targets of the Armed Wing New Army* used grenadiers, machine guns, and sniper rifles to provide close fire support, and quickly conquered a series of Russian fortresses, and the next step was to occupy the city of Arthur.

On New Year's Day, the defenders, led by the commander of the Russian fortress, General Stepser, were defeated and tens of thousands of remnants surrendered to the Japanese. Until this time, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, which was playing soy sauce, was sailing off the coast of Madagascar to watch lemurs. On 27 May, when the Russian fleet, which was going to continue north to Vladivostok, passed through the Tsushima Strait, Heihachiro Togo, who was waiting for the rabbit, led the Japanese combined fleet to meet the blow, and the Russian fleet was almost completely wiped out, and only a few ships such as the cruiser "Aurora" escaped. In this war, the Japanese Navy also established its own military god, Marshal Togo, and could not let the horse manure, which the Navy had always looked down on, be in front of the beauty. As for the time when the cruiser "Aurora" returned to the Baltic Sea after all the hardships and dangers, it was already the spring of the second year, but this cruiser with a major historical mission did not die, and it sounded the death knell of the Romanov dynasty.

In the entire battle for Arthur, the Japanese army was killed and wounded more than 50,000 people, and the Russian army suffered about 45,000 casualties. However, both sides ignored the fact that the Wuyi New Army was a small force that could always stir up the tide of the war, and in fact, although the Wuyi New Army fought a lot, the casualties were not large. More than 700 people were killed in battle, more than 2,100 were wounded, of which less than 300 were disabled and retired. Although Wu Chenxuan is also very distressed about the casualties of these loyal soldiers, the surviving soldiers have been tempered by the fire of war, and they can calmly face life and death, and become elite soldiers and strong generals who can really be relied on. In this sense, Wu Chenxuan has already made a lot of money by participating in the war this time.

Of course, that's not all he gains, because there's more...