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86_86661 In the spring of the 31st year of Guangxu, in the Leshou Hall of the Summer Palace in Beijing, Cixi listened to Prince Qing's report on the situation of the Russo-Japanese War. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Yi Liang said: "Enlighten Lafayette, the Japanese have defeated the Russian army in Lushun, and the Russian army in Lushun has surrendered to the Japanese. ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi was surprised and said: "This little Japan is quite capable!" These little dwarfs can help us get rid of the old Russian hairy people, and that's fine! Tell me, what's going on? ”

Yi Liang said: "Huh! The Japanese Army's Third Army launched a stubborn and sustained attack on the fortress of Arthur. From August to October last year, the Japanese army continued to launch observation and firing at Port Arthur from the Great Arc Mountain, and the naval strikes in the Yellow Sea naval battle earlier caused the Russian fleet to fall into a state of almost total annihilation.

However, the Japanese army was unable to confirm the situation in the harbor, which led to confusion in the subsequent operations.

After breaking through the defensive line northeast of the Arthur Fortress in a bloody battle, the Third Army occupied the Lookout Hill behind the Arthur Fortress, exposing the whole of Arthur to the Japanese overlook and achieving the goal requested by the Navy.

This was followed by a second general attack by the Third Army in two phases, on 19 September and 26 October. The purpose of the attack was to occupy the positions around Panlong Mountain, Dadingzi Mountain, to ensure that the prominent positions already occupied at the time of the first general offensive would not be isolated by the Russian army.

This general offensive basically achieved the operational goal in the area outside the 203 heights, but the 203 heights, which are located in the most critical areas in the center, were met with fierce resistance from the Russian army and were unsuccessful.

Although in this attack, the Japanese army also successfully captured Sea Mouse Mountain, which overlooked almost the whole Port Arthur, but because it still failed to observe the sea area where the main force of the Arthur fleet was located, the navy once again issued a request to the army to attack the 203 heights.

The Navy's request was accepted by the base camp, but the Third Army disagreed with the Manchurian command on the main target, and did not begin operations until the base camp obtained the emperor's approval.

The third general attack, which began on 26 November, was fought bitterly as the Japanese entered a positional battle. In the middle of the battle, Nogi decided to suspend the attack on the northeast side of the fortress and attack the 203 heights instead.

Upon learning that the situation was at a stalemate, Marshal Oyama ordered Gentaro Kodama (who was also the governor of Taiwan) the chief of the General Staff of the Manchurian Army to go to the front to assist in the command, and joined Nogi's troops in the battle at Heights 203.

The Battle for the 203 Heights was a typical battle for the hilltop. The battle was first led by the remnants of the Japanese 7th Division and the 1st Division, and then the tactics were determined by the Manchurian Army's Chief of General Staff Kodama Gentaro to use the Japanese army's 28 companies to attack in waves, and the troops launched a charge every 15 minutes.

The Japanese attacked at dawn on December 5, 1904. First, 18 artillery heavy guns (18 large-caliber shotgun with a diameter of 28 cm for coastal defense in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, were urgently transported to support the 3rd Army of Arthur, and one shell weighed 300 kg. ）

Bombarding the Russian positions established on the top of the hill, under the cover of the bombardment, the 27th Company integrated the 3rd Squadron charged to occupy the southwest summit of the 203rd Heights, then the 28th Company integrated the 1st Squadron Roubo charged to occupy the northeast summit of the 203rd Heights, and then the 25th Company of the Integrated Formation captured the central summit of the 203rd Heights in the evening. According to the battlefield records of the Japanese army, when the Japanese captured the southwest peak, northeast summit and central summit of Heights 203, almost no one survived in the Russian positions on the top of the mountain, and the Russian army could be said to have fought to the last soldier.

After a round of exciting fighting, the Japanese finally captured Heights 203 on December 4. On the evening of December 5, Japanese artillery used heavy artillery on the mountainside of Heights 203 to bombard the Russian fortress in the city of Arthur, and annihilated more than 10 remaining ships of the Russian First Pacific Fleet that had retreated to Port Arthur in the port.

After that, the 11th Division captured the permanent fortress of the Russian army in East Jiguan Mountain, and on December 28, the 9th Division occupied the permanent fortress of the Russian army in Erlongshan, and the Battle of Erlongshan was the last battle of the siege of Lushun.

The Third Army then continued to pursue the remnants of the Russian army near the Arthur area, and on January 1 of this year, it broke through the defensive line of the northeastern front and occupied the Lookout Fort. When the 203 heights were occupied by the Japanese army, the Russian sailors of the Arthur fleet had already gone ashore in advance to defend the fortress because the fleet had already lost its combat effectiveness.

The war of attrition on the 203 heights depleted the Russian army's reserves, the fall of the frontal fortress made the Russian army demoralized, and the generals of the main battle faction in the Russian command lost support, so at 4:30 p.m. on the same day, it was decided to surrender to the Japanese army.

At 1 p.m. on January 2, 1905, Reis, Chief of Staff of the Russian Army, and Colonel Desi Jianshi Novichi were in the farmhouse of the former Beiyang Naval Division Battalion of the Qing Dynasty, waiting for the Chief of Staff of the Japanese 3rd Army, Chikosuke Iji, to negotiate the conditions for surrender.

On January 5, General Nogi and his chief of staff Ijichi, Lieutenant General Stessel, commander-in-chief of the Liaodong region of the Lushun Russian army, and his chief of staff Reis, signed the surrender of the Russian army in Lushun at the farmhouse of the Beiyang Naval Division Battalion. On January 14, on the east side of the camp of the Saishi, Nogi Noshinori presided over the conjuring of the lost in battle and read the memorial text. ”

When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard this, she said, "Prince Qing, do you think that which of the two families has a better chance of winning?" ”

"Wechen has been observing the confrontation between Japan and Russia for a year, and from the beginning, the Russians have the upper hand, but it seems that from the very beginning of the war, those Russians seem to have fallen into some evil, and strange things have always happened.

At the beginning of the war, there was an accident in the Russian fleet, and their fleet commander died unexpectedly, but the Japanese ships were spared this reckless accident, and the Japanese seemed to be a little luckier, and their commander Heihachiro Togo escaped the catastrophe without being on the flagship ship.

Judging from the feeling of Weichen, the Japanese have a relatively large victory rate, and the Russians do not seem to be very good from the very beginning of this war, and I think that all kinds of signs indicate that the luck of this war is not in the hands of the Russians. ”

Cixi squinted her eyes and thought for a while and said, "Let them go, in short, their fight is not necessarily a bad thing for us in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Wang Wenshao, who was standing next to Prince Qing, said: "Lafayette, Zhang Yintang plays." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi glanced at Wang Wenshao and said, "Say, what's going on there?" ”

Wang Wenshao said: "Zhang Yintang said that the rectification of Tibetan affairs in our country should be held sooner or later, and this matter is urgent and cannot be delayed. It is planned to invite Jian Guiguan to make the whole of Tibet, and on the one hand, he will select and send a large number of soldiers, command 20,000 elite soldiers, and quickly enter Tibet from Sichuan and be stationed in key passes. All domestic and foreign affairs are managed by our country, and the current new policies are held one after another to take back the governing power. He and the Panchen Lama were appointed as bishops in Tibet and were not allowed to interfere in politics. As soon as the arrangement is made, the number of troops will be reduced year by year in order to save money. ”

After hearing this, Cixi sighed and said, "The territory is vast and cannot be separated!" Appointing Zhang Yintang as the minister in Tibet has full authority to handle matters is the land of our Qing Dynasty, and we will never give up! ”。

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