Chapter 722: Give it a go
Try the color to be dull. The silence in the military port "occasionally sounded two whistles, and the desolation of the Shishished added to the desperate atmosphere.
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"Whoosh"
From time to time, the sound of artillery fire could be heard outside the port, followed by the howling of shells piercing the air, and then the roar of shells exploding after falling to the ground. This is a small Chinese warship outside the military port firing into the military port, and it does not pay attention to any accuracy. It was for the sake of harassment, in order to increase the atmosphere of terror and despair in the military port, that it was impossible to accurately judge the location of the Chinese warships in the dark night. So this counterattack is not talked about, all the artillery in the fortress is silent, of course, another reason for this is because there are not many shells stored in the fortress.
This is Lushun, where the headquarters of the Japanese Kwantung Army is located. It is also the political center and military center of Japan's "Kwantung Prefecture", since the Sino-Japanese war, it has actually been blocked by the Chinese Navy's submarines and mines, and a few days ago, when the weather was still good, the planes of the Chinese Air Force also rushed into the airspace over Lushun from time to time, dropping bombs and bombing, harassing them, and the entire military port has been in a state of panic, and most of the Japanese are under the control of despair, even the Japanese "Kanto Governor." Yasumasa Fukushima is also desperately waiting for the final moment.
In the entire Port Arthur, no one knows the current situation better than Fukushima Yasumasa, since the death of the commander of the Kwantung Army, Major General Tachibana Koichiro, Fukushima Yasumasa threw the last bit of luck in his heart into the Yellow Sea, he knew. The loss of Gaiping and the death of Koichiro Tachibana meant that the Nanmanqin Road was no longer a line of communication for the Japanese army, and the Chinese army could rush to Lushun and Dalian through this railway at any time, and there was now nothing to stop the Chinese army from advancing south.
If it weren't for the fact that Oshima Yoshimasa sent 10,000 troops to reinforce Lushun and Dalian in time, perhaps Fukushima Yasumasa would have no mobile forces available now, but even if these 10,000 people were deployed in Jinzhou, I am afraid that they would not be able to resist the attack of the Chinese army, because the Chinese army not only has train guns, but also has armored combat vehicles, in the face of such a modern army armed to the teeth, the only thing Fukushima Yasumasa can do is to take a telegram to ask for help in Japan, and one after another telegram asking for help was patted over, But what awaited him was a cold order.
"As an Imperial soldier, Your Excellency should live and die with Lushun."
That's the heart of that cold command. And now, Yasumasa Fukushima has a copy of the telegram in his hand. Lying on the sand, he looked half-dead.
Fukushima Yasumasa knew very well that now the Japanese military headquarters had changed its mind, and since Anju in Korea was conquered by the Japanese army, the Japanese military department and his gang decided to cancel the original plan of continuing to land on Dagushan and instead transport the army units that landed later to the coast of Korea, land from there, and then cross the Yalu River. Attack westward, threaten Shenyang, and thus mobilize Chinese troops north. to solve the danger of Lushun. In other words, the current Japanese military department is completely gambling, and their bet is Lushun, they are counting on relying on a strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, and drawing the main attention of the Chinese army to the direction of Shenyang, in the eyes of the Japanese military department, this is not only to save Lushun, but also to save the advance force of the Japanese army reinforcements that is about to fall into the encirclement of the Chinese army.
However, in the view of Fukushima Yasumasa, no matter how the military department plans, it is impossible to change the current disadvantages of the Japanese army on the battlefield, and the strategic initiative is still on the Chinese side, as long as the Chinese are willing, they can sweep south at any time and conquer Lushun with one blow. This is not only because of the superiority of the Chinese army in terms of strength and weapons, but more importantly. At present, the people of Lushun are already panicked, and the air raids and those night shells from the sea have caused all the Japanese in the military port to lose confidence in victory. Many Japanese expatriates even ran to the port of Dalian. I wanted to retreat back home from there, but it was also a dangerous route, because after the ship left the port. It can be attacked by submarines from under the water at any time. Just the day before yesterday, a ship carrying Japanese nationals and a heavy ship carrying munitions were sent to the bottom of the sea by torpedoes fired by Chinese submarines.
Now in Lushun, there are only less than 5,000 defenders left, even if those soldiers in the countryside are added. It was only a combat force of more than 7,000 people. If the Chinese army attacked now, Fukushima Yasumasa did not have any confidence to hold Lushun, he knew it well. The day of the fall of Lushun was the time when he was martyred by Fukushima Yasumasa, and whether or not the military department took this implied telegram, he Fukushima Yasumasa would die in Lushun. Perhaps it won't be long before his name of Yasumasa Fukushima will appear in the shrine of Kudanpo.
Fukushima Yasumasa was ready to be martyred. But what about Lushun? No one can save this fortress, if the fortress falls, then, no one knows what changes will occur in Japan, the current political situation in Japan, it is very delicate, one careless, I am afraid that Japan will be doomed.
Because of this, Fukushima Yasumasa is now very depressed, coupled with the news of the loss of Changdian from Jinzhou in the afternoon, Fukushima Yasumasa cannot concentrate on deploying defense at all, so he can only hand over this work to his staff officers to handle it with full authority. Worry can only lie in the crowd of Shabu. The animal lantern that looked at the table cloth came out※
The bombing of the Chinese Air Force a few days ago has destroyed several motors, and the current power supply can only ensure the needs of the fortress batteries, as for other places, it can only be regressed to the era of horse lanterns.
"Your Excellency! The shelling of the Chinese Navy began again. The Navy strongly demanded a night attack to give the Chinese a head-on blow! ”
Just as Fukushima Yasumasa was distracted, a staff officer hurried into the tent to convey the naval unit's request for war.
"The Chinese's submarine is lurking outside the military port, and the channel is full of mines, and now when it leaves the port, it is to send it to death, don't those red deer know?"
Fukushima Yasumasa sat up and snorted coldly with a straight face. In order to preserve his limited strength, he had already ordered the destroyers and gunboats in the mooring outside the port to sail to the coast of North Korea a few days ago, and now only those warships in Port Arthur that could not attack because of mines were left, under the threat of the Chinese Air Force. These warships could be sunk at any time. Fukushima Yasumasa did not think about breaking through, but under the threat of mines and submarines, he finally decided to leave these warships behind and plunge them into the final fortress defense battle, using the cannons on the warships to provide fire support to the army.
Seeing that Fukushima Yasu's face was not good, the staff officer bowed and retreated in a playful manner, but did not wait for him to get out of the tent. However, he had already heard a few whistles coming from the direction of the military port. The whistle was very high-pitched, definitely not the whistle of a tugboat.
"Your Excellency, the Navy has already begun to act!" The staff officer was so surprised that he hurriedly walked back to Fukushima Yasumasa.
Yasumasa Fukushima sighed, stood up and walked to the window, looking out the window, he could see the lights of two warships flickering, what seemed to be two destroyers. It seems to be going to the other side of the channel.
The Navy was already a little disobedient, and Fukushima Yasumasa was very annoyed, but there was nothing he could do. As an intelligence officer, the "Governor of Kwantung" already lacked prestige, and now he was at such an absolute disadvantage, and it was indeed difficult for the Japanese troops to obey him.
"Are these red deer really going to die? The army is arrogant and unstoppable, and now, even the navy has to go alone? Are they going to attack? I'm afraid I want to run away. ”
Fukushima Yasumasa hated and insulted a few words, and then ordered the staff officer to invite the commander of the navy.
However, the commander of the navy did not come, but only ordered the staff officer to convey a few words, the general content of which was: Now that the detachment is in a difficult situation, and the Chinese army will soon come from the north, in order to preserve the limited strength and preserve the strength for the revival of the Japanese Empire, His Excellency the Commander of the Navy Detachment will personally lead the remaining ships to break through at night, even if he loses a few warships, because in the opinion of His Excellency the Naval Commander, it is an extremely stupid strategy to stay in the military port and wait for the Chinese troops to come, which will annihilate the detachment completely.
It must be admitted that there is some truth in the opinion of the commander of the Navy. But in any case, this cannot be an excuse for his disobedience, after all, according to the order of the military headquarters, the wartime detachment was under the control of Fukushima Yasumasa.
But now, the naval detachment is really disobeying orders, what does this say? Is it just that Fukushima Yasumasa has lost his prestige? I am afraid that this is not the case, and Fukushima Yasumasa suspects that the actions of the detachment are likely to be tacitly approved by the Combined Fleet. Because just before dark, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Heihachiro Togo, gave the commander of the Lushun detachment a coded telegram, which was a special password. Fukushima Yasumasa did not know the contents, only the commander of the detachment had a codebook, and it was difficult to say that the telegram was not a prohibition of the detachment to break through.
"I'm going to expose their disobedience to the military department!"
Fukushima Yasumasa did not hesitate, and immediately decided to take a telegram to expose the disobedience of the commander of the fleet to the military department, but this telegram was difficult to shoot, because the submarine telegraph line did not have any signal, no one knew what was going on, maybe it was a cable failure, but it is more likely that the Chinese Navy destroyed the military cable on the bottom of the sea, and now it can only rely on the radio station, but this must be transmitted through the radio of the naval ship, and Fukushima Yasumasa can only use a special password to communicate with the military department.
Before Fukushima Yasumasa could draw up the code, more whistles came from the military port, and almost all the warships in the port that could move were in action. Destroyers, cruisers, gunboats, armored ships, liaison ships, large and small warships began to pressurize the boilers. The artillery was also ready to fire, and the light of searchlights swept around the military port, which was a complete desperate posture, not even the slightest concern that the sound of the whistle might attract the attention of the Chinese navy.
"Red deer!"
Fuwuan angrily threw his pencil and walked out of the tent in a rage, preparing to rush to the docks with a few staff officers.
But before he could go far, a staff officer hurried up and handed a telegram from Kaneshu to Yasumasa Fukushima.
The telegram was taken by the commander of the Japanese army in Kanesu, Yoshiko Akiyama, in which Yoshiko Akiyama asked Yasumasa Fukushima to send reinforcements to reinforce Kanesu. Because the armored forces of the Chinese have already hit.
The telegram fell weakly from Fukushima Yasumasa's hands to the ground, the Isthmus of Jinzhou is of great importance, and Jinzhou is the gateway to Dalian and Lushun, if Jinzhou falls, the fall of Lushun will not be far away.
At this point, Fukushima Yasumasa can only give it a go.