The bombardment on the night of February 11, using napalm, was aimed at the only remaining Japanese fort complexes No. 5 and No. 6. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After the fire, the Japanese fortifications were not damaged much, but all the Japanese troops in the fortifications were turned into charcoal, and the officers and men of the two Japanese wings were eliminated.

Now the Japanese army in the entire Port Arthur has a little more than 1 division in total, and with such a small number of troops, it is no longer possible to fully defend Port Arthur, if the officers and soldiers are gathered together, and they are afraid that the Xia Empire will continue to bombard with incendiary bombs, and if it is unfortunate that the whole army will be wiped out, if the troops are scattered, the army of the Xia Empire will attack, and it will be possible to occupy the position with just a charge, and it will not be able to achieve the purpose of killing and injuring a large number of the living forces of the Xia Empire.

Lieutenant General Kigoshi Yasutsuna sent a number of telegrams to the General Staff in succession, asking for tactical guidance, but he has never received a reply, and now he, including all the surviving Japanese troops, has lost the confidence to continue to hold on to Lushun, and they can live only because they want a good end and do not involve their relatives at home.

On the morning of 12 February, Lieutenant General Du Shihui arrived at the Dayaowan base and immediately convened an operational meeting.

The captain of the Hindenburg airship also attended the meeting as an observer and reported on the bombing effect of more than a day, and if he continued to bomb, he could no longer find a valuable target.

Lieutenant General Du was very happy and praised the Hindenburg airship for its great contribution to the capture of Port Arthur and the annihilation of the Japanese army.

The commanders of the 27th and 31st divisions were also in favor of launching a general offensive, which could not leave time for the Japanese to repair the fortress.

So Lieutenant General Du Shihui issued an order: At 12 noon today, two national defense divisions will take over the defensive task of the two blockade lines, and the cavalry division will cooperate with the 27th and 28th divisions today to rest for the time being, and be ready to launch a general attack.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of February 13, the general offensive was officially launched, the 27th Division launched an attack from the west side of Port Arthur, occupied the 203rd Heights, and the 31st Division launched an attack from the northeast of Port Arthur, occupying the lookout battery and the surrounding fortresses The 2 howitzer regiments each took out 2 battalions to support the attack of the 2 divisions, so that each division has 1 155 and 1 105 artillery battalions to support the airships to prepare and take to the air to support the attack of the ground forces at any time The navy is ready to support the coastal areas, as long as the coastal firepower is exposed, The navy must destroy it with naval guns.

After giving the order, the leaders of the various departments dispersed to prepare for tomorrow's general attack. Du Shihui was still very nervous in his heart, if there were still fortress guns or large howitzers on the Japanese batteries, then their own attacking troops would be hit by the other side, and their own troops did not have large-caliber artillery, and they were very passive in fighting, just relying on airships to support, and there was always a lag period, during which the casualties of the troops would be very large, and they must apply to be equipped with larger-caliber artillery after the war.

In the afternoon of the same day, the airship squad mainly bombed the batteries and forts that had slipped through the net, and specially asked two soldiers to search with binoculars, and as long as they found the target, they would throw shells downwards at any cost, and the Japanese soldiers who blew up did not even have a place to hide.

Lieutenant General Kigoe Yasutsuna decided to shrink the battle line at night, and all the survivors were concentrated on the 203 heights, at least there was a command headquarters on the 203 heights that the Xia Empire's airships could not bomb, and there were many dark bunkers that survived in the bombing, in terms of the solidity of the fortress, the fortresses of the 203 heights were the strongest, if they couldn't even hold the 203 heights, then the other places couldn't be held, and in the storage room under the command of the 203 heights, a large amount of ammunition, food and drinking water were stored, In the end, the troops even only held the headquarters and made a last-ditch fight with the Xia Empire's army.

That night, the surviving personnel of the Japanese fortresses and batteries quietly withdrew in the direction of the 203 heights, and did not dare to destroy the batteries and forts before evacuation, but only removed all the key small parts of the heavy weapons, so that the troops of the Xia Empire could not use the weapons left by the Japanese army to attack the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army completely withdrew to the 203 heights, Lieutenant General Kigoshi Antsuna counted the number of people, there were still 4 brigade commanders left, 11 wing commanders left, and a total of more than 18,000 people, including the lightly wounded and the seriously wounded, had already chosen to be with the position when they were evacuated, leaving them with the necessary food and sufficient ammunition, and preparing to pull a part of the soldiers of the Xia Empire to die before they died.

Lieutenant General Kigoe Antsuna was very satisfied, the number of surviving officers and soldiers exceeded his expectations, if these people continued to be scattered in various places, they would not be able to cause any harm to the Xia Empire at all, and now that they were gathered together, the result would be difficult to say.

Lieutenant General Kigoshi Yasuna ordered each brigade commander and each wing commander to lead 1,000 soldiers to take turns to be on duty in the surviving bunkers and machine-gun forts halfway up the mountainside.

Every time he only sent 1,000 soldiers to defend, even if he was bombed by the Xia Empire, all of them were killed, and he would not be injured, and he could continue to fight with the army of the Xia Empire.

At 8 o'clock on the 13th, the troops began to launch a general offensive in accordance with the battle plan.

At 10 o'clock, the 31st Division arrived at the attack site and sent 1 company of soldiers to make a tentative attack, but did not meet any resistance, successfully occupied the lookout battery, and reported that the Japanese had retreated, leaving an empty battery.

The commander of the 31st Division was not at ease, and ordered them to search carefully to see what was abnormal and sent 3 companies to occupy the North Fortress of Dongjiguan Mountain, the Fortress of Erlong Mountain, and the Fortress of Pine Mountain, these three fortress groups.

Soon, news came back from the 3 fortress complexes, all of which were empty fortresses and that the enemy had withdrawn.

The commander of the 31st Division was still not at ease, so he asked them to continue the search, and reported the abnormalities in time, and the remaining troops immediately rested and fed to prepare for the battle in the afternoon.

At 11:20, when the troops were eating dry food, the watchtower battery made a shocking explosion, and even the top of the fort was blown away, and everyone realized that they were ambushed by the Japanese army, and when everyone had not come to their senses, the other 3 fortress groups also had huge explosions one after another, just listening to the sound, I knew that this was not the sound of artillery, it was the sound of shells detonating, and the troops were indeed ambushed by the enemy, but fortunately, the commander of the 31st Division was cautious and did not send more troops to check forward, Instead, it was arranged for the fighting troops to eat, so that the large army could escape the catastrophe.

The commander of the 31st Division immediately ordered the reconnaissance company to send people to check the situation to see if there were any surviving officers and soldiers, to immediately rescue them, and to send four more companies to conduct a careful search around three forts and one battery.

However, less than half of the four companies sent out in the first batch were killed, and the rest were all killed in the explosion, and more than half of the surviving soldiers were seriously injured.

Under the careful search of the 31st Division, not a single living Japanese was encountered, and the strategic target was successfully occupied. And sent 2 regiments to continue the advance, one regiment advanced along the seashore and occupied all the fortresses and batteries along the coast, and one regiment went straight to the old city street of Arthur.

Compared with the success of the 31st Division, the 27th Division was caught in a bitter battle with the Japanese at the 203rd Heights. To be continued.

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