So, after a day of recovery and rest, the Japanese army immediately reacted.

Nearly 300 artillery pieces of various calibers were fired together, and the Russian army occupied the front-line positions of the Japanese army for less than a day, and was soon enveloped in artillery fire.

When the Russian army shelled at the beginning, because they used mountain artillery, as long as the shells did not directly hit the trenches, the Japanese troops hiding in the trenches could survive. Therefore, although the Russian army smashed more than 10,000 shells on the front-line positions of the Japanese army, it only lost more than 10,000 people at sunset, and an average of one shell killed and injured a Japanese soldier.

However, the shelling in front of you is very different.

Sure enough, in addition to 60 percent of the field artillery commonly equipped by the Japanese army, more than 80 of the remaining artillery pieces are all large-caliber howitzers. Finally, there were twelve siege guns with a caliber of more than two hundred millimeters.

Whether it is a large-caliber howitzer or a siege artillery, a single shell can blow up a crater at least two meters deep on the battlefield.

How could a trench reinforced solely by logs withstand such a powerful explosion.

In just one round of artillery fire, at least 20 gaps were blown out of the defensive line stretching for more than 10 kilometers, with the gap as the center, and all the Russian troops within 20 meters on both sides were killed and wounded.

A dozen siege artillery shells were more powerful. When an artillery shell explodes, regardless of whether it hits the defensive line or not, with the impact point as the center, the Russian troops within a radius of 50 meters will be shocked to death even if they hide in the trenches.

Therefore, on the defense line with no end in sight, although the Russian troops were hiding in the trenches, the Japanese army still took more than a thousand lives in just a few seconds with a round of nearly 300 shells.

And that's just the beginning.

At the end of the test firing, the Japanese artillery unit slightly adjusted the angle of the shelling. It's as if artillery shells don't cost money, and a steady stream of shells are fired at Russian positions.

Soon. The defense line, which stretched for more than a dozen kilometers, was shrouded in gunsmoke.

Oyama Iwa is very aware of his strengths, so. The almost massacre artillery bombardment lasted for twenty minutes without stopping.

As for the artillery fire of the Russian army's counterattack in the middle of the way, it was knocked out by the Japanese artillery acting as a reserve force in less than three rounds.

In addition, many of the Japanese guns are equipped with large-caliber artillery with a long range, and the constant outbreak of artillery battles is often that the Japanese artillery can easily hit the Russian artillery positions. However, the Russian artillery could not hit the Japanese artillery positions because of the limited range of the artillery.

In this way, the Japanese army's nearly 300 artillery pieces of various types fired nearly 30,000 shells of various kinds for 20 minutes without any regard for 20 minutes. Almost more than half of the limited stocks of the Japanese army were consumed.

Of course, such a large payment is still very cost-effective for the Japanese army.

After the Russian army occupied the front-line positions of the Japanese army, the Russian army had already guessed that the Japanese army would counterattack.

The Japanese army had only two lines of defense in front and behind, and after losing the first-line positions, there was only one line of defense left.

If this line of defense is broken by any more accidents, then the Japanese army is finished.

Therefore, in order for the decisive battle to go smoothly, the Japanese army, as the attacking side, and there is no way back. can only do everything possible to recapture the front-line positions from the Russian army.

The commander of the Russian army, who had thought of this for a long time, immediately thought of the tactics of using defensive warfare to kill and injure a large number of Japanese troops.

Thus, in just one night, the commander of the Russian army increased the defenders on the defensive line from 30,000 in three divisions to 50,000 in five divisions. And that's not all. The commander of the Russian army also strengthened more than 50 percent of the heavy machine guns of the entire army to these five main divisions, preparing to teach the Japanese offensive troops a lesson that will never be forgotten here.

But. The commander of the Russian army clearly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army.

By the time the Japanese artillery fire had ended and begun to extend, there was no longer a stretch of trench in sight of the defensive line that stretched for more than ten kilometers.

As for the location of the original trenches. Every interval of tens of meters, or even tens of meters. There will be a huge crater.

With the crater as the center, the surrounding area is covered with dense corpses of Russian troops in various postures.

Of the more than 50,000 Russian troops, 25,000 were killed directly by the shelling, and at least 5,000 light and seriously wounded were scattered along the defensive line, weakening the morale of the defenders with their constant screams and wails.

At this time, the Japanese army that launched the attack did not intend to give the Russian army any respite.

As soon as the shelling began, more than 40,000 people from three divisions of the Japanese army rushed to a position less than 200 meters in front of the Russian formation.

At this time, the Japanese army, because of the loss of light machine guns in the hands of the Liaodong Army, each division replenished almost 150 machine guns.

The three divisions together amounted to almost five hundred machine guns.

As soon as these machine guns in the hands of the Japanese attacking troops fired, the positions of the Russian troops covered with craters were covered by an impermeable bullet net.

Many Russian troops were hit by bullets before they could react.

In the face of such a strong covering fire, coupled with the fact that more than half of the heavy machine guns equipped by the Russian army were destroyed in the shelling.

The Russian army, which was stunned by the Japanese army from the beginning, could not organize an effective counterattack no matter how desperately it tried, and could only watch the Japanese army rush towards them step by step.

In the end, more than 40,000 Japanese troops managed to enter the Russian positions with only seven or eight thousand losses.

More than 30,000 Japanese troops fought against more than 20,000 Russian troops, plus the Japanese army's ability to fight stabbing was much higher.

As soon as the battle began, the battlefield was one-sided.

Patches of demoralized Russian troops were stabbed to the ground by the Japanese ********.

In the face of the Japanese army, which was becoming more and more brave on the battlefield, the Russian army, which had suffered heavy losses, was finally afraid.

When a Russian army, under the influence of fear, does not want to run for its life and runs for its life, more and more Russian troops become routs.

Soon, the Russian army, which had less than 20,000 people left on the battlefield, all turned into routs, and they had to flee for their lives in the direction of Liaoyang desperately.

More than 30,000 Japanese troops followed closely behind them in pursuit, and constantly strafed with machine guns to weaken the Russian army.

The commanders of the Japanese and Russian armies immediately received the battle report from the front.

Seeing that the Japanese army was so vulnerable, and the attacking troops were closely following behind the Russian rout, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Oyama Yan, immediately ordered the troops to cover up the situation and continue to attack until they occupied the front-line positions of the Russian army.

At the same time, the artillery bombardment that had been stopped was ordered to immediately cover the front-line positions of the Russian army, harass and hit them, and covered the troops to continue the attack.

On the other hand, the commander of the Russian army in Liaoyang City was pale with a pale face.

Because, the 50,000 troops defending the front-line positions of the Japanese army were all the mobile troops that they could mobilize.

Now that this army is finished, it directly means that in the next battle, he has lost his offensive ability.

As a battle-hardened veteran, the commander of the Russian army knows very well that once the troops fall into a passive situation, they will not be far from defeat. (To be continued.) )