Chapter 274: Siege of Lushun
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The mountain was excellent and closed his eyes in despair, without any nostalgia, quietly waiting for the last knife to end his life full of hatred.
Chen Zhong slowly withdrew the war knife in his hand, looked at the mountain friend who was no longer resisting, and said, "Hey! Mountain Tomora, open your eyes, this king will not kill you, leave you with a life for the time being, and repent well! Maybe in a few years, you will see this perverted history. ”
Yamagi Yura slowly opened his eyes and said painfully and hysterically, "Why didn't you kill me?" I've heard enough! I numb myself with alcohol every day, I numb myself with brutal killings! This world is full of hatred and war every day, and I have no way to escape, because I am the son of the Japanese national hero Genji Yamachi, I must be strong, I must be ruthless! However, I am in pain, I am so tired, why don't you kill me! Why don't you kill me! Why!!! ”
Chen Zhong looked at the psychopathic mountain friendliness who had been tortured by the war, and said to Yan Xia: "Take the mountain friendly general down and let him calm down!" ”
At this time, the guard officer sent a telegram from Chen Fangzheng, saying that General Li Chuang's second group of 50,000 troops had been transported to Bohai Bay, and they asked for instructions on where the 50,000 troops were deployed.
Ma Cong said: "Lord Wang, the city defense of Lushun is very strong, I think it is best for General Li's 50,000 troops to stay in Dalian and attack Lushun with us." ”
Chen Zhong pondered for a moment and said, "These 50,000 troops were transferred to the Liaoyang area to meet with General Li's advance troops, and to block the reinforcements of the Japanese army from Fengtian in the Liaoyang area. ”
Ma Cong was a little anxious and said, "Lord Wang, is it too little to attack Lushun with our current troops?" You must know that when the Japanese army attacked Lushun, it lost nearly 60,000 troops before taking Lushun. ”
Chen Zhong looked at Ma Cong, who was blushing in a hurry, and said with a smile: "It is precisely because of the strong defense of Lushun City and the dangerous terrain that this king decided to give up the idea of attacking it first. Adopt a strategy of besieging but not attacking Lushun.
In the era of Qing control, Li Hongzhang began to build the defense system of Lushunkou. Therefore, Lushun had a relatively complete and strong set of fortifications very early.
Later, after the occupation of Lushun by Tsarist Russia, after two years of survey and design, the defense facilities were rebuilt on the original facilities at the mouth of Lushun.
After more than four years of construction, Russia spent a huge amount of money to build more than 40 fortresses and more than 70 artillery batteries, forming a fortress defense system that included anti-landing of surface ships and land operations.
Later, the Russians added 116 guns, and most of them were old and too close to fight the Japanese heavy artillery; Second, the storage of ammunition is insufficient, and the reserves of grain and non-staple food are also insufficient.
Despite this, the Japanese suffered heavy losses when they attacked Lushun last year. Nogi Noshinori mobilized three divisions, two reserve regiments, two field artillery brigades and regiments of the Japanese army, nearly 60,000 troops and more than 300 artillery pieces, and almost all of them were destroyed, but they still did not break through Lushun.
Later, Emperor Meiji transferred hundreds of heavy artillery pieces from Japan, activated Kodama Gentaro, and spent nearly ten days to pay a heavy price to capture the Port of Arthur.
Therefore, this king decided not to adopt a strategy of attacking Lushun, and we must achieve the greatest result at the lowest cost. The kind of play that relies on crowd tactics is only used when it is absolutely necessary.
Colonel Ma Cong, remember, fighting a war is not a desperate effort. We want to minimize casualties in every battle. ”
"So, what does the prince mean?"
"What this king means, besiege Lushun! Then they will defeat themselves, and finally, without any source of supplies, will fight out of the city themselves, so that we can wait for our work and fight it on the outskirts of Arthur. ”
Ma Cong admired Chen Zhong's strategic arrangement to the extreme, and he gradually understood that in the war, he should use flexible strategies and tactics as much as possible, comprehensively grasp the entire battle situation, make use of the deployment of troops on both sides of the war situation, mobilize troops in a mobile manner, firmly grasp his own advantages, avoid his own weak points, and take efficient measures to strike at the enemy, rather than fighting hard.
After Chen Zhong led the Marine Corps to take Dalian, he began to command the war situation in Dalian.
In view of the current situation, Chen Zhong considered that if the Hainan army took the Liaodong Peninsula, the Japanese and Russians would not have the strength to compete with him in a short time.
However, by that time, the biggest enemy in front of Hainan should be the army of the Qing court. When the Qing court saw that the Hainan army occupied the area east of the Liao River in the northeast, it naturally felt that it was a threat.
Moreover, Britain and the United States and other countries will not hope that there will be a military force of Hainan in this region, so when the Hainan army really conquers the Liaodong Peninsula, it will inevitably cause several forces at home and abroad to intervene, so at this moment, we should consider the next step of Hainan's national deployment of troops to deal with the crisis that may arise at any time.
On the one hand, he ordered Zhang Tong to do a good job in Hainan's coastal defense and further strengthen the fortifications around Hainan.
Xiao Yang was ordered to ensure that the military enterprises in Hainan would produce guns and ammunition in good quality and quantity. At the same time, there was a planned order, artillery and ammunition for warships to supplement the lack of self-sufficiency.
Ordered Zhou Zhiguang's army in Guangxi to gradually penetrate into a small area to the north, occupy strategic points in a planned way, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing court in the near future.
Ordered the Qi Gang army in Guangzhou to infiltrate around Guangzhou and postpone the plan to attack Taiwan.
Ordered the blade to quickly infiltrate Qinghai and Gansu to complete his strategic deployment in the west for the next national decisive battle with the Qing court.
After all the arrangements were completed, Chen Zhong began to think further about the battle situation in Liaodong, and finally decided to fight Liaoyang first, then Lushun, and finally the decisive battle of Mukden, completely driving out the Japanese army in Liaodong.
He telegraphed Li Chuang to build fortifications in the area south of Liaoyang and carry out a blocking war against the reinforcements from Fengtian.
Nearly 200 field mountain guns were mobilized and erected on the periphery of Lushun to carry out a circular artillery bombardment of Lushun.
Ordered General Chen Fangzheng's Hainan Fleet to carry out a shore attack on Lushun from the sea.
The strategy for Lushun was to besiege but not attack, but to use long-distance artillery bombardment to cut off all contact between the Japanese army in Lushun and the outside world.
Then, in the area of Liaoyang, he blocked the reinforcements who came to support Lushun, and used the method of siege to force the Japanese troops in Lushun to leave Lushun.
In this way, the army in Hainan could avoid the loss of storming Lushun and force the Japanese army out of the city for a decisive battle.
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