Section 91 is finally rich

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On May 4, the Japanese general Okubo Gong led 4 divisions of the 2nd Army, about 38,500 men and 216 guns, to land in Piziwo in the southeast of the Liaodong Peninsula.

On May 5, Admiral Alekseev, the Russian Governor-General of the Far East, fled Lushun by luxury train, and the Japanese army took control of the Jinzhou Isthmus, blocking Lushun's land communication with the outside world.

At the end of May, the Japanese army began to attack Jinzhou, and the Japanese army easily repelled the Russian army to occupy Jinzhou, and then marched to Dalian, and then captured Dalian, and now the Japanese army has arrived at its destination, the periphery of Lushun.

Major General Kondrachenko, commander of the Russian ground forces in Lushun, insisted on fortifying the perimeter and successfully blocked the Japanese army at the 25 to 30 km line.

The continuous defeat of the Russian army made the tsar very faceless, and he did not take the Japanese seriously before the war, but he did not expect to be slapped in the face, and strictly ordered the commander of the Russian Army in the Far East to counterattack.

The commander of the Russian army, Kuropatkin, sent the First Siberian Army south to rescue Lushun, and the two sides fought fiercely in the area of Deli Temple and Wafangdian, and the Japanese army won another victory, capturing 3,000 Russian soldiers and 17 artillery pieces.

After the Russian rescue force was repulsed, Lushun became an isolated city.

After the Japanese army landed in various directions, the "General Headquarters of the Manchurian Army" was established on June 20, with Marshal Oyama Iwa as the commander-in-chief, and unified command of the Japanese troops in all units.

A large-scale Japanese landing operation began.

On August 7, the Japanese army took the lead in launching an attack on Lushun and captured the commanding heights of the front of Lushun, but under the command of Major General Kondrachenko, the Russian army finally recovered its morale from successive defeats and repeatedly fought with the Japanese army, and these two commanding heights were fought for four days.

But the performance of the navy was too bad, the commander of the Russian fleet, Witheft, was ordered to break through from Arthur to Vladivostok, which was well-fortified, but he was poorly prepared, miscommanded, encountered the Japanese fleet, died on the spot, and after the breakthrough failed, the rest of the ships were forced to retract back to the Arthur base; Some of the ships fled to neutral ports and were disarmed.

On August 19, after clearing the perimeter, the Japanese army began to launch a strong attack on the fortress of Arthur, assaulting day and night, and fighting fiercely for five days, but the Japanese only captured some forward fortifications, but suffered one-third of the troops, about 20,000 people, and the Russian army only suffered 3,500 casualties.

The huge casualties made the Japanese abandon the strong attack and change to a long-term siege, and at the same time mobilized troops to penetrate deep into the hinterland of the northeast, intending to take advantage of the arrival of European reinforcements from the Russian army to encircle and annihilate the Russian army in the northeast in Liaoyang.

The Japanese were crazy enough, they only sent three armies of 135,000 people and 474 guns to carry out a war of annihilation against the Russian army with 592 cannons, and as a result of the Battle of Liaoyang, the Japanese won.

However, the Russian army was not annihilated, the Japanese army lost 24,000 men, and the Russian army abandoned Liaoyang after losing 17,000 men, retreated backwards, and finally retreated to Shahe.

After the Battle of Liaoyang, foreign military attachés who watched the battle believed that Russia's defeat had changed from a possible impossible problem to a sooner or later problem.

After that, the Japanese and Russian armies confronted each other in the Shahe area between Mukden and Liaoyang, and because they failed to annihilate the Russian army, the number of Russian troops continued to arrive, and in September they had gathered 210,000 men, 758 guns, and 32 machine guns. Faced off with 120,000 Japanese troops on a 90-kilometer defensive line.

The situation began to turn against the Japanese, and it seemed that after exhausting their sharpness, they were unable to forge ahead. Moreover, a series of offensive operations have caused a lot of consumption to the Japanese army, and Japan has carried out a general mobilization, but the ratio of troops has always been at a disadvantage. The Japanese had to temporarily move to the defensive, waiting for the 3rd Army to be freed from Arthur as soon as possible and go north for reinforcements.

But the Japanese began to defend, but the Russians were about to start attacking, almost twice as many as the Japanese army, and the commander of the Russian army did not dare to attack, which not only made the people in the country very dissatisfied, but the tsar could not look at it and asked Kuropatkin to attack.

Beginning in mid-October, Japan and Russia launched a large-scale offensive and defensive battle around the Shahe River, with more than 300,000 troops on both sides fighting in an area of nearly 100 kilometers.

The purpose of the Japanese army was to wait for the Lushun army to withdraw and converge, and the purpose of the Russian army was to defeat the Japanese army and rescue Lushun.

At this time, Lushun became the focus.

If the remaining 40,000 men of the Third Army led by Nogi Noshinori can capture Arthur as soon as possible, it will not only be able to annihilate the Lushun Navy and gain sea supremacy, but will also be able to draw troops north to join most of the Japanese army and fight a decisive battle with the Russian army.

If Nogi Noshinori is unable to capture Arthur in the short term, then the arrival of the Russian European fleet and the convergence of the Arthur fleet will not only form an overwhelming advantage over the Japanese navy, but also the Japanese army in the Shahe area will have to fight hard with twice the strength of the Russian army.

"Lushun attack and defense, Nogi military god, the Russians hold on."

Yang Chao has been paying close attention to the war situation, and the military attachés and war correspondents of the Great Power Observation Corps have been publishing the most cutting-edge war situation to the newspapers, so Yang Chao has always been quite clear about the battle situation.

He knew that the next step was to send a suicidal attack on Nogi Noshinori towards the fortress of Arthur, at most more than 10,000 casualties in one attack, and the final total casualties exceeded 60,000, more than the total number of troops put into battle, and the Japanese had to continue to replenish Nogi Noshinori's troops, and nearly 140,000 people were invested.

Nogi Noshinori attacked Lushun strongly, but the Japanese army miraculously won the battle again, although it did not achieve a substantial victory, but the Japanese army annihilated more than 40,000 Russian troops, and only lost more than 20,000 people.

However, at this time, the Japanese and Russian armies were also exhausted, and finally turned to rest, and the two sides consolidated their positions, repaired fortifications, confronted each other, and occasionally sent reconnaissance troops or carried out artillery bombardments, but the large-scale offensive and defensive battles were temporarily stopped.

The battle situation in Shahe was temporarily calm, and the Japanese began to decide to draw new domestic troops to support the direction of Lushun as much as possible, and take advantage of the Russian army's recuperation in Shahe to completely capture Lushun and destroy the Lushun fleet at the same time.

The newly recruited soldiers needed munitions and supplies, and the Japanese finally found Ma Tengfei.

Yang Chao's plan to make a fortune is finally going to be realized.

"What is the high price, sixty taels of silver?"

After getting an offer from the Japanese, Yang Chao couldn't help but despise it, and he was too stingy to make a move.

"Reply to Ma Tengfei, one hundred taels of silver for a rifle, and the bullets have to be counted separately. Let him tell the Japanese that if they don't buy it, we will sell it to the Russians. ”

The Japanese had money, and during this time the news of their constant victories reached London due to the strength of their soldiers, and the sales of Japanese bonds in the London market were very good, and the first fifteen million pounds of Japanese bonds were swept away, and the Japanese were already planning to issue a second bond.

In contrast, in the Paris market, the price of Russian bonds has been falling, and everyone feels that the Russians have lost.

But Yang Chao always felt that there was something weird, as if someone was sniping at the Russians, but he lost two land battles, and the total number of casualties was still more than the Japanese, and the huge Russian army was still moving east, so how could he think that Russia had lost.

In fact, judging from the results of later generations, the Russians did not suffer a devastating blow in the land war, but only retreated, losing half of Liaodong. The Russian army has never been an army known for its high quality of soldiers, they always rely on the huge number of infantry and tenacious national temperament to crush the enemy, and the later it is, the more it can reflect the advantages of the Russian army. Napoleon, Hitler were all consumed in this way. The strange thing is that when Hitler hit Moscow, the British did not say that the Soviet army would be defeated, and now they have just withdrawn from Liaoyang, and the public opinion of the British believes that the Russians will be defeated.

Under the influence of public opinion, it is difficult for Russians to raise funds in the market, and even if they borrow money, it is at a high interest.

This can only be said that the British opened a second battlefield outside the battlefield.

But they were much better for the Japanese, and the newspapers began to publicize the victory of the Japanese, so that the interest rate on the Japanese bonds went all the way down, and they could be financed at a lower cost.

Perhaps because they had money, the Japanese did not stalemate with Ma Tengfei for long, and soon agreed to empty the inventory in Ma Tengfei's hand, a total of 200,000 rifles, and 10 million rounds of ammunition, and they all wanted them. They couldn't ask for 2,000 cannons, and the battlefield situation has shown that whoever has more artillery will have the advantage in firepower.

200,000 rifles were 100 taels of silver, and 20 million taels of silver were in hand, of which 8 million taels of silver were given to the arsenal, and Yang Chao's profit reached 12 million taels, and he immediately felt that he had become a rich man.

But compared to the profit of the cannon, this is just pediatrics, a cannon costs 2,000 taels of silver, sold to Yuan Shikai is 4,500 taels, sold to the Japanese is 10,000 taels, no two prices. Two thousand cannons, plus one million shells, collected a total of 30 million taels of silver from the Japanese. Among them, Yang Chao's net profit is 20 million taels.

It's better to make money by trading arms.

"The Japanese said that they had all the weapons and ammunition from the Qingdao and Laiwu arsenals, and asked us not to sell them to the Russians."

The reason why they paid the high price so happily was that in addition to the fact that they were really short of ammunition and really had money in their hands, I am afraid that preventing the Russians from getting arms from Yang Chao was their most fundamental purpose.

"Dreaming!"

Yang Chao couldn't help but sneer.

In the past six months, the Qingdao Arsenal has also switched to wartime production, doubling its production capacity, with a normal annual output of 100,000 rifles, but now easily 200,000 rifles.

The American technicians of the Laiwu Arsenal even opened the three-shift mode, each shift was eight hours, to ensure that everyone's physical strength was enough, the energy was enough, and the production efficiency quickly reached a limit, and the production capacity faintly exceeded that of the Germans.

It has to be said that in terms of mass production, the Americans still have a set.

Therefore, the weapons and ammunition sold to the Japanese are actually only half of Yang Chao's current output.

It was only Yang Chao's fortune that made the Americans and Germans jealous, and their consuls in Qingdao and Yantai soon secretly found Yang Chao.