Chapter 200: The Battle of Vladivostok

The Chinese Empire, the first year of Guangming, July 2, 1894, the port of the Royal Navy's Fourth Combined Fleet, and also the northernmost important port of the Chinese Empire, Mentu, who was guarding here, knew in his heart that it was only a matter of time before it was captured. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and Marshal Zhang Zhidong has already given an order that he can retreat at any time, and has arranged fortifications for him at the next stronghold.

But when he saw the Japanese warships in the open sea, Mentu's heart was very angry! The arrogant Japanese were gradually clearing the mines off Vladivostok using minesweepers, and were already gradually approaching the port of Vladivostok.

During this period of time, Mentu ordered all the heavy artillery fire of the coastal defense artillery not to open fire, which used small-caliber artillery to return fire, which made the Japanese warships on the sea more arrogant, but Mentu knew that he could not be angry and panic at this time, and the most important thing was to be patient!

Mentu is now the commander of the 4th Marine Division with the rank of Major General. This is the youngest general of the Mongolian nationality in the new army, except for Zeng Greenqin, the worldly prince. The reason for this is that the junction of the two provinces of Mobei and Heilongjiang is really long, and the intersection of these two places in history is also the most.

Many warriors between the white mountains and black waters live in the vast grasslands and deep forests, and they have a lot in common in essence, and now many people go to business, and the men who stay in their hometowns are all private ranchers with vast pastures.

Mentu is a large rancher, his large pasture is on the north side of the city of Chagda on the Aldan River, where the climate is colder, and the summer time is shorter, which is not suitable for growing food crops, but the pasture grows very well, and his cattle and sheep herds are counted in several valleys.

The formation of the Marine Corps this time was an order issued by Prince Zeng Greenqin, and this order was originally intended to be pushed down, because his two younger brothers died in the First Great Patriotic War, and the sons they left behind were very young, and his father was very old, and it was not easy to take care of such a large family.

But Monk Greenqin sent a telegram again, telling him that the Khan had issued an order that the Japanese invasion was true this time, and that the Chinese Empire must not lose this time, and Monk Greenqin told Mentu.

Don't forget, who gave you the great pasture now, and now the order of the Great Khan, whether you want to obey it or not, you can decide for yourself!

Mentu had no choice but to gather his subordinates and brothers on a journey, and when he left home, his father sent him far away, telling him, you can go with confidence! This kid will grow up fast, you don't have to worry about it at all!

Since the Kangxi period, after the Yellow Religion spread to the Mongolian steppe, the shamans on the steppe have gradually decreased, and the vast majority of the Mongolian people have converted to Tibetan Buddhism, which has a great impact on the peoples on the steppe.

A large number of adult men became monks, which gradually reduced the population of the grasslands. From 2.1 million in the early years of the Qing Dynasty to 1.7 million now, you must know that the main population of the Chinese Empire was growing explosively during this time.

Mentu ordered his brothers to gather at the Yellow Temple in the city of Chageda, this Yellow Temple is the largest temple in the east of Mobei Province, and many people come here every day to burn incense, or come here to please close the ritual, in fact, there are many times Mentu thinks that if he insists on a little bit back then, maybe his father will let him become a monk.

But all this can only be thought about, or if he hadn't followed Prince Zeng Lingqin back then, he wouldn't have taken on this responsibility today! After assembling their party in the city of Chagda, they made their way south to the port of Vladivostok.

Along the way, there were teams and Mentu converging, and when they came to Boli City, the confluence of the three rivers, they had already reached a battalion of soldiers. At this time, the militias of Rehe, Suihua, Mukden, and Jilin provinces were all gathering towards the port of Vladivostok!

When he arrived in Vladivostok, where the formal military training had begun, at this time the regulations of the Chinese Empire, the militia was not an ordinary citizen, and the current international situation was still very turbulent, so the militia could not be completely separated from the battlefield, and the militia had to return to the army every year, but the longest time would not exceed half a year.

Rotation between provinces, each militia with their own unit number, which led to a lot of interesting phenomena, when a veteran returned to the barracks, found that the current platoon commander was the little brother who followed him, and the guy standing next to him was his top boss in the factory.

But in the army, there is no difference in rank and status among all the people, everyone wears the same clothes, carries the same food, sleeps in the same room, and this is the time when everyone is the same!

When Mentu came to Vladivostok, he caught up with the wife of the instructor here to give birth to a child, and then his military rank was the highest, because he had made the most contributions in the Great Patriotic War, otherwise he would not have such a big fief.

So Mentu became the commander of the current Marine Battle, Mentu looked at the Japanese battleship through binoculars, he has always fought on land, he really has never faced a naval battle, and he doesn't know how to fight at all!

But now the Chinese Empire has a very strong staff system, and these staff officers have already made a lot of plans, as long as the door map chooses one set of them to execute, but Marshal Zhang Zhidong, who is in the strategic command of Jilin, issued a very strange order!

"What is a planned, steady retreat!"

The staff officers present also didn't know what was going on!

When Zhang Zhidong learned that the current commander of the Fourth Marine Division was actually a Mongolian, he had already eaten it, first of all, he scolded Seng Greenqin in his heart, what is this guy doing, do you pay attention to the orders of the General Staff at this time?

But at this time, Zhang Zhidong didn't have the idea of changing generals in battle, so he sent a simple and clear order to Mentu; "If you can't beat it, retreat, don't blame you, we're going to put his 'dumplings' in the back!".

Mentu understood when he saw this order, so now he has no pressure at all, and these Japanese troops are beginning to prepare for the landing!

At this time, the Japanese battleships at sea finally began to prepare for landing on July 28 after spending half a month clearing the mines at sea, when the Japanese warships fired shells fiercely at the land batteries in Vladivostok at sea! The Japanese warships accurately calculated the amount of shells and gradually pushed inland from the coastline.

The cannonballs said that the port facilities in Vladivostok were blown away, and the timber, coal and other materials piled on the port were also very badly damaged, but in the fort, because it was a permanent fortification, there was not much danger.

But the shells smashed on the ground, and the dust peeled off above the fortifications, still caused a lot of mental pressure on the soldiers, and as the time of the artillery fire lengthened, Mentu mentally calculated the time of the artillery firing, and after twenty minutes, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to come out of the fortifications and enter the firing point immediately through the tunnel!

At this time, the Japanese First Front, led by Tomomo Yamagu, the former chief of staff of the Cabinet, began to attack the port of Vladivostok, and under the cover of the Japanese Navy's shipborne artillery fire, these Japanese soldiers landed in small boats at the port of Vladivostok!

This harbor in Vladivostok is the estuary of the Suifen River, and the unique soil in the northeast is the black soil, which is the most fertile land in the world, and God has given mankind two such lands in this world, one in the Great Lakes region of the United States, and one in the northeast of the Chinese Empire!

Moreover, Vladivostok is a frozen harbor, and it is frozen here for half a year, and you can't see it when it's frozen, but in the summer, you must not walk along the river bank or on the edge of the coast, because the soil here is too soft.

The black mud will expand on the feet, and with each step, a thicker layer of black mud will be glued under the surface of the feet, which is the best for such soil planters, but if you walk on it, it is very painful!

The Japanese soldiers approached the shoreline, then abandoned the dinghy and jumped out of the boat, each armed with a Springfield-style rifle, and then dangled their butts towards the position of the Chinese Marines.

The coastal position, because the Japanese battleship's shipborne artillery fire hit him very hard, so Mentu gave up guarding, during the exercise, there was no one to guard here, but now seeing the Japanese soldiers attacking like a turtle, Mentu regretted it very much!

Can't you turtle grandchildren be faster! Mentu's order was to have the Japanese fire at a distance with heavy artillery and machine gun fire at close range when they were closer, so as to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

Yamagutomo was on the ironclad ship Songshima, looking at the attacking Japanese army with binoculars, he was very anxious now, Dashan Yan's second army had captured most of the cities and territories of Korea, and his first front army had not yet achieved any results, which made him, the commander-in-chief, very annoyed!

Now seeing that the landing of the army is very smooth, he is already relieved in his heart, after all, this is a newly developed port of the Chinese Empire, and it has not been in operation for a long time, so it is impossible to have any important resistance, and there should be no major battles here!

As long as this port is captured, the First Front Army will have a foothold in the Chinese Empire, so the First Front Army must win this battle, and the Imperial Japanese Army is invincible!

At this time, a loud bang sounded on the hull of the "Matsushima Ironclad", and then the entire battleship began to shake, and Yamakutomo's telescope kept flapping on his chest, but at this time Yamakutomo was not in the mood to care about this. He clung to the side of the ship so that he wouldn't be thrown overboard!

At this time, the whistle sounded on the ship, and all the crew members ran into the cabin, and many people also squeezed out of the warehouse, reporting the situation inside, and everyone on the battleship was busy fighting, at this time Yamado Tomomo immediately raised his telescope and looked at the Japanese troops on the shore!

Yamagutomo saw that the Japanese army was like wheat in the autumn wind, all top-heavy, and one by one they were going down, and at this time many of the firing points in Vladivostok that had never been discovered before began to fire, and these heavy shore defense guns had already posed a threat to the Japanese warships.

Yamagutomo found that these Japanese warships retreated again! Then he shouted; "Yaga! You can't retreat, you can't shoot at the shore, their firepower has leaked, you have to destroy them now, you can't give up the soldiers who have landed!