Although the Second Army eliminated the Russian army that had attacked rashly but almost overturned the Second Army with a casualty ratio of 1 to 1 half a month ago. The encirclement and counter-encirclement battles on the outskirts of Golden State were ended. Brother Stessel actually gave up the army when he saw that the situation was not good, and fled alone with his guards, and the redbeards in the northeast were also very incompetent, this is also a bearded Russian army often defeated General After thirteen days of makeup and escape, he returned to Changchun unscathed, but his good luck ended here. Arrested by the gendarmes in Changchun and sentenced to death by the Tsarist court on his return to Russia, the prison commander was given the opportunity to reflect on how many Russian soldiers had been killed by his stupidity, cowardice, arrogance, and incompetence.

Then again, Lieutenant General Nogi Noshinori, who was comparable to Stepel in all four aspects, was rewarded by the Emperor after the end of the war and immediately promoted to the rank of general. This is the consequence of factional strife in the Japanese Army, and even Meiji, as the emperor, had to compromise this tradition, although the veteran's military strategic ability is not highly evaluated, but the generals who are so loyal and united around the Meiji Emperor will not affect Meiji as his rear * even if his IQ is worried.

So Oyama Iwa is a tragedy, although a different commander is likely to be removed from his post and investigated, but in the face of Nogi Noshinori, who is just an old lieutenant general, he has to weigh it again, and finally under the face of Commander Nogi, he quietly sent Kodama Gentaro Chief of General Staff, and asked Kodama to give Nogi Noshinori a secret order, temporarily let him hand over the command, and Kodama personally supervised the fourth general attack on Lushun. With Kodama's talent in the use of artillery, he is far stronger than Nogi Noshinori, a tendonous general who can only charge with infantry. Originally, it took only eight days to rely on concentrated artillery fire, non-stop attacks and forward command, and captured the 203 heights at the cost of more than 6,200 dead and wounded, but unfortunately Nogi Noshinori, who had a basically negative IQ, actually broke out in character, allowing him to find a way to avoid being replaced by Kodama - asking for foreign help.

Wu Chenxuan sent Wu Luzhen and their Zuozhen to a steam cargo ship in Taikoo, England, but unfortunately there were only 2,563 men who went back this time, and more than 400 officers and soldiers had already been loaded into the jar to cross this shallow Bohai Bay with their brothers and embark on the return journey home. When a long whistle sounded from the Taikoo steamer, a group of soldiers in iron-gray tweed uniforms and white gloves fired three consecutive volleys at the sound of the command, sending off their comrades with gunfire. The trumpeters on the ship blew the lights-out horn, and the officers and soldiers of the second and third bids of the right town and the fifth battalion of heavy artillery that had just arrived stood straight and gave the last military salute to their comrades. For a while, there was no sound between heaven and earth except for the sound of the waves washing the beach. Even the tears of the soldiers were silent, and this solemnity and strong comradeship made the Japanese officers who came to discuss also feel the same way. After the soldiers were disbanded, he came to the front, reported to the adjutant, and then honestly waited for Wu Chenxuan's summons, without the arrogance of no one in his eyes when the war had just begun. As long as they are pure soldiers, they will give recognition and respect to the army whose combat effectiveness is recognized, and there is only one way to win the respect of soldiers, and that is to defeat strong opponents.

"Want our help?" Looking at Gao Yanagi Bao Dazuo with an impressive face, Wu Chenxuan was also depressed, but he didn't expect that Du Zicheng had just arrived in Liaodong with two standards, and he was about to be pulled into the battlefield before he could rest. "Well, let's talk about the situation, the more detailed the better."

Although the other party did not agree, Takayanagi also knew that there was not much to do about this master himself, after all, the other party was an ally who "listened to the propaganda and did not listen to the tune", so the bamboo tube poured beans and reported the predicament of the Third Army to Wu Chenxuan, although he did not say that the chief of the general staff of Kodama was going to take over the command of Lieutenant General Nogi, but Wu Chenxuan, who was familiar with this public case, understood it as soon as he heard it. Nogi Noshinori would rather ask for help from the Qing people he looked down on, than give Kodama Gentaro, who did not belong to the Changzhou Domain, a chance to step on his head, and it seems that Lafayette's advanced idea of "preferring outsiders to domestic slaves" still has a bosom friend.

"Well, it looks like a tough bone. But Takayanagi Bao Daisa, you see that you have such an elite imperial army of 50,000 or 60,000 people can't handle this 203, aren't our five or six thousand people going up to add food? "Although I think it's acceptable to participate in the war, after all, you can train elite soldiers by fighting hard, but if you don't take the opportunity to blackmail the little devil, you really have the honor of being a profiteer.

"This? That is true. The main obstacle in our attack is the opponent's bunker and central fortress, and because the artillery cannot be deployed in the front, there is no way to accurately hit the opponent's living forces. The grenadier and Type 01 infantry artillery were invented by your department, and we found that the fire support at close range was very effective in our actual combat, but unfortunately we originally had only one wing of each division and regiment equipped with a batch, and we lost all of them in the previous battles, so we hope that your department can provide some skilled grenadier shooters and Type 01 infantry guns for close fire support, suppress and destroy the defensive support points of the Russian army, so as to open a breakthrough through the 203 heights. Gao Yanagi Bao had lost his temper, and he simply explained Nogi Noshinori's plan to Wu Chenxuan.

"That's right. It's not that no, after all, we're allies. But you have also seen that we have taken a round of battle to recuperate, the last group of soldiers have just returned by boat, although this batch of reinforcements is large after all, but they have just floated from the sea for three days and two nights, and they are very tired physically and mentally, and if they want to enter the battle immediately, the casualties must be very heavy, so how about I plan to rest for three days and then go to the 203 heights to participate in your general attack? ”

Takayanagi Boichi grinned, and said in his heart that if I can wait for three days, I still need to beg you for a pigtail pig, and after three days, I'm afraid that Chief Nogi will stand aside, who knows who you are. "I'm afraid I can't wait, in fact, the time of the total attack is set at 15:00 in the afternoon, please ask your two wings belonging to the 11th Division of our army to attack in the second wave."

"Then we'll have to pay the price in blood. It's hard for me to explain to my subordinates, after all, we sent troops to save our compatriots, and it would be a departure from our original purpose to sacrifice more soldiers for nothing. Wu Chenxuan stretched out his hands helplessly, looking like he was not in a hurry anyway.

"Sorry for the trouble." Takayanagi has no choice, he can't invite reinforcements, he estimates that it is possible to be ordered by the angry Nogi Chief, don't look at him as a big Zuo, but he belongs to an outsider in the third army, and he is the best candidate for the top tank and the black cauldron. For the sake of his own life, he couldn't take care of much, but fortunately, he knew the temperament of this Qing military attaché better, "What can you serve, please just bring it up, we will try our best to meet your needs, after all, you and your subordinates are also fighting for the consciousness of our East Asian nation." ”

"It's embarrassing, like we're mercenaries working for a few small bucks." Wu Chenxuan didn't have the slightest expression of embarrassment on his face. "That's it, you see, my staff officer gave me a list, I think since we are doing business in partnership, oh, it's an alliance to fight Lao Maozi, this brother still has to settle accounts, right? Well, I'll lose something, that's all..."

Hearing the familiar tone of Wu Chenxuan, a top profiteer, Gao Liubao had already begun to tremble, and sure enough, the list he put forward listed almost all the Chinese and property in Lushun, as well as the port facilities and steamship repair equipment of the Russian army, as well as Lao Maozi's shipyard employees, merchants, and so on. However, to Takayanagi's surprise, within ten minutes of receiving the telegram he sent back, Chief Nogi's reply came, and he accepted these conditions very happily, and also sent all the supplies of the Russian navy, of course, if they could capture them. Nogi is actually interested in adding blockage to the navy, so the Qing people want naval supplies and shipbuilding and repair equipment, so he will not be a villain. As for the property and lives of the Qing people, he also felt that it was not a big deal, after all, there were seventy or eighty thousand people in Lao Maozi alone, and they were all fat and fat pigs, which was enough for their third army to be punished.

The profiteers on both sides were in love with concubines, hooked up and became adulterers, and they actually reached an agreement in an hour. Wu Chenxuan and Du Zicheng led two standards plus a heavy artillery battalion, a total of six or seven thousand troops, carrying light and heavy artillery, and began to march towards the 203 heights.

The first two wings of the Japanese army shouted and charged, the crowd was dense and the formation was neat, if it had been set back thirty or forty years, it would have succeeded in one fell swoop, but with the perfect combination of barbed wire, water-cooled machine guns and rapid-fire guns, it could only become a large coffee table with cups on it. Finally, half an hour later, the Japanese crowd faded, leaving a mess.

Soon the second wave of Japanese soldiers shouted wildly at a whistle, and then began to charge under the guidance of the marching team with white cloth tied in front of them. Ten minutes later, Wu Chenxuan finally saw dozens of three-person teams carrying grenadiers and sniper rifles, and the second standard support team wearing black, white and gray snow camouflage jackets began to mix in the ranks of the Japanese troops and began to participate in the attack. The soldiers of the artillery battalion dismantled the Type 01 infantry gun into pieces, and more than a dozen people began to climb the mountain with artillery parts on their backs, select suitable craters or other concealed parts, and quickly assemble the artillery once the location was selected, and began to shoot directly.

The Russian army was accustomed to the offensive rhythm of the Japanese army at the beginning, so it fought handily, repelled the Japanese army without paying many casualties, and left the Japanese army with no less than a thousand casualties. Just when the Russian army was glad that the Japanese were strong, the second wave of the offensive had begun, and the Russian army was cheering up and hoping to continue its glory, but it was surprised to find that there were some bells and whistles in the black Japanese military uniforms, and they were carrying large and small cannon barrels on their backs.

"Ruler 124, azimuth" soon a series of data was reported to the heavy artillery battalion behind, all the trenches of the Russian army that were not covered by fortifications were covered by the shells of the 105 howitzer, although the German 105mm light howitzer in 1898 was called "light", but the 105mm caliber and 15 kg shells allowed the Russians to experience the latest scientific and technological achievements of the Germans, and the range of six kilometers far exceeded the old artillery of the Russian army, so the heavy artillery battalion was completely calm and fixed position, Little by little, shells were used to smooth out the trenches of the Russian army. In order to stop the second wave of Japanese attacks, the covered firing point had to shoot desperately, and Maxim's heat dissipation barrel was steaming, and the shooters were already half-frantically pulling the trigger, spitting more than half a foot of flame.

"Eight Grids, damn bastard, failed again." More than half of a second lieutenant's twenty men had fallen, lying in the depression, but the artillery in the rear could not cross the gentle slope in front of them to hit the pillbox. Just when the second lieutenant was going to attack with a meat * bomb and die with the Russian army, there was a dull sound, and a grenade easily drilled into the perforation of the bunker in an arc, and in the blink of an eye, this devouring bunker burst into flames, and several Russian soldiers rolled out of it with fireworks all over their bodies, and the Japanese soldiers stopped shooting and watched coldly, waiting for them to gradually turn into piles of burning bonfires in the rolling and howling.

The second lieutenant turned back to look for the guy who saved his life, but he didn't expect to see that it was indeed a soldier with braided hair who was skillfully loading grenades, squatting in the crater, and leaning out from time to time to observe the enemy. "It turned out that it was the Qing slave who saved him" The second lieutenant, who was ashamed, picked up his rifle and rushed to another bunker, he was smashed in two by the machine gun as he wished, and rolled over to irrigate the black soil of China with a belly full of grievances and a belly of water.