Section 89 Plan

In the second year of Hongguang (1904), on February 6, Japan broke off diplomatic relations with Russia, and launched a surprise attack on Russia on the night of February 8. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Compared with the precise deployment and careful planning of the Japanese, the reaction of the Russians appeared to be very careless.

When the Japanese destroyer fleet sailed outside Port Arthur and launched a surprise attack on the Russian Pacific Fleet anchored here, the searchlights and lighthouses in Port Arthur illuminated the harbor as if it were daylight, as if it were specifically pointing out the target to the Japanese.

What makes people sigh is that during the day, the Japanese also rented British ships to evacuate the Japanese expatriates in Lushun, which could not attract the attention of the Russians.

In fact, after the Japanese severed diplomatic relations, the Russians also made arrangements and decided to take supplementary measures to strengthen vigilance, but they did not begin to implement until February 10, so the Pacific Fleet anchored in the outer port of Arthur and continued to implement the "peacetime regulations."

Under the Russians' usual 'peacetime regulations', all the searchlights on the battleships were lit, and the mine nets were not opened, and as a result, on the first night, three capital battleships were heavily damaged by the Japanese fish, but fortunately they were located in the harbor and could be repaired immediately.

The reason why the Russians were so careless was because no one believed that war would break out, because no one believed that the Japanese would dare to attack them on their own initiative. Since the Crimean War of 1855, no one has taken the initiative to provoke a war against the Russians for half a century, let alone a yellow country in the East.

But I didn't expect him to explode like this.

Later generations always suspected that Roosevelt was deliberately unprepared when Japan attacked the Americans.

There are also people who do not understand that when the Germans attacked the Soviet Union, Stalin did not take precautions.

The main reason is that, as both Americans and Soviets, neither they believe that anyone will dare to fight them, especially without declaring war.

However, although the Japanese planned carefully, they still failed, not defeated, but did not achieve the operational goal, their goal was to sneak attack and severely damage the Arthur fleet, and at the same time completely block the Port Arthur, seal the Arthur fleet in the port, so that the Japanese Navy will occupy the sea supremacy.

However, the Japanese eliminated two Russian warships in the port of Incheon in Korea, so that the Russian warships in the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea were concentrated in Port Arthur, and as long as Port Arthur was blocked, Russian warships would not be able to leave the port to fight.

Unfortunately, what the Japanese did not know was that when they attacked Arthur, the officers of the Russian fleet were holding a dinner in the city to celebrate the name day of the wife of the commander of the fleet, Admiral Stark. I don't know what's going on in the harbor inside the fortress. The command inquired, and the officers below perfunctorily said that they were shooting live ammunition, and then continued to have fun. It wasn't until dawn that the wreck of the ship that had been hit near the harbor was discovered, and the Russians revealed the truth.

The Japanese missed an opportunity in vain, if they had not sent a few destroyers to attack with torpedoes, but had directly sent the main forces to push them, they might have destroyed the Russian fleet in the first night, and the war might have dragged on for less than a year.

Of course, the Japanese knew that the Russians were holding a party, and their spy system had been spread from the Baltic Sea to Tokyo, and every move of the Russians was under their surveillance, but they were not bold enough to dare to gamble on the first day, because they would not believe it if they were killed, and the Russians would be careless that the ship was blown up and had not yet reacted. And sending the main fleet to storm Port Arthur, once the operation is unfavorable, it will have to face the double attack of the Russian fleet and the battery, and there is no hope of withdrawing at all.

After that, the Japanese main fleet began to blockade Arthur, the Japanese combined fleet has been wandering outside Port Arthur, and the Russian fleet has been cowering in the port without a single step, cooperating with the shore defense batteries to defend, and the Japanese cannot eat Arthur.

If the Russian fleet is not destroyed, the Japanese will not dare to send the army with confidence, because once a large number of land forces are sent to the land, as long as the Russian fleet is blocked at sea, they will not be able to transport supplies with peace of mind, and the army will be cut off from the mainland, so from the beginning, the war will be stalemate, revolving around blockade and counter-blockade.

Every day, Yang Chao listened to the relevant battle situation, and at the same time constantly wrote and drew in his notebook, recalled, analyzed, and perfected his plan.

There is nothing complicated in the plan, and it can even be said that there is no choice, that is, to support the Russians as much as possible, let the Russians fight with the Japanese for more time, and consume the strength of these two countries as much as possible, and it is best to ensure that the Russians will win a crushing victory in the end, and then China will be able to jump out and pick peaches, of course, provided that the Qing government has the courage to take the fire from the fire.

But it is not easy to help the Russians, first Yang Chao himself has no strength, even if he has already trained a new army, the imperial court will not agree to him to join the war, even if he agrees to join the war, he will not agree to fight the Japanese, because Japan also got the consent of the Qing government to send troops this time, and the banner is to help China restore its territorial integrity.

In this war, Japan was completely supported by the Chinese, both official and non-governmental.

Not only the Chinese, almost the whole world is supporting Japan, the British stand behind Japan, telling the Japanese to rest assured to fight, no third country will join the war, otherwise the British will also enter the war, so that Russia's ally France does not dare to act rashly, and at the same time, the British and the Americans also opened the financial markets in London and New York to vigorously help the Japanese to finance.

The Russians only got limited support from France, and they could only finance in Paris, but the French did not want Russia to focus on Asia, but hoped that Russia would focus on Europe and attack Germany with France in the east and west, so France's support was very limited, and they were very unhappy, and in the end, when the war situation was unfavorable, France immediately jumped out and tried to demand that Russia end the war.

To be honest, the Russians have never been very good at diplomacy, and it can be said that they fought this war with the Japanese when they were isolated by the whole world, but the Russians are used to fighting hard alone, and this is how their rise came about, so they don't care.

With the financial support of Britain and the United States, and the military support of the British Empire, the Japanese can be said to have occupied the right time and place, to be honest, it was not a fluke that they won this war, it was almost doomed from the beginning, in this case, Yang Chao wanted to help the Russians turn the tables, it was really a bit against the sky.

But the Russians also have a clear advantage, they have absolute strength, but they are not able to mobilize forces in Asia.

But in the end, it was not the military problem that made the Russians insist, and even the economic problem was not the main problem, but the political problem. When a revolution broke out in Russia, Comrade Vladimir (Lenin), with the support of Japanese funds, returned home to launch an uprising, which caused the Russian government a great headache and could not suppress it for a while, so it gave up the competition with Japan in the East and reduced its strength to deal with domestic affairs.

"If Comrade Vladimir can be held back, the Russians will definitely fight the Japanese."

Yang Chao thought in his heart, but he found that he had no way at all, and a Japanese spy did everything possible to find Vladimir, and then handed him a check for millions of pounds, asking him to return to China to start an uprising. But is this the real reason, even if the Japanese don't give money, Yang Chao believes that Vladimir will not let go of this good opportunity.

The second reason why the Russians admitted defeat was the total annihilation of the navy, first after the capture of Arthur, the total annihilation of the Pacific Fleet, and then the Second Fleet, which crossed the globe from distant Europe to the Sea of Japan, was ambushed by Heihachiro Togo in the Tsushima Strait, and was also completely annihilated.

To be honest, the performance of the Russian Navy is too disappointing, they are the only navy in the era of ironclad ships, and the strength of their two fleets is not worse than the Japanese, combined with twice the Japanese fleet, but they were divided and annihilated, and neither fleet showed a minimum of military literacy, and the performance was even inferior to the Beiyang Fleet.

After losing the naval battle, the Russians had lost the possibility of defeating Japan, because it was impossible for them to swim to Japan to fight, so Japan, which had mastered the sea power, was already invincible, just like the British, who could always be at ease in the European war, because they had the right to control the sea.

And the plan of the Russians from the beginning was that the navy would annihilate the Japanese fleet, and then land in Japan to destroy Japan.

The Russians were very confident at the beginning, and with absolute strength, they were confident that they would defeat the Japanese, and even their commander-in-chief said that this was nothing more than a military walk.

It's a pity that the results of the naval battle surprised them, and at the same time the war on land was not smooth, Lushun was defeated, Liaoyang was defeated, Mukden was defeated, almost a series of defeats, although there was no fatal defeat, but the blow to morale was very serious, at this time the Russians no longer believed that they could win against Japan, the best result was only a draw, since it was destined to be unable to achieve victory, so they compromised and retreated in exchange for peace.

Therefore, in order for the Russians to be able to hold on and keep fighting with the Japanese, there is only one way except to find Comrade Vladimir, that is, to hold the Russian fleet and let the Russians always see the hope of landing in Japan, so that they can continue to mobilize the army to fight in the northeast and fight the war for a long time.

The 1st Pacific Fleet was blockaded at Arthur, and because of the defeat of Lushun on land, it was sunk by the Japanese one by one with roadbed batteries, or sank itself. The Second Pacific Fleet had to venture across the Sea of Japan because of the fall of Arthur, only to be ambushed by the Japanese fleet.

Yang Chao suddenly discovered that Lushun was a key point, and the existence of Lushun was actually related to the victory or defeat of a normal war.

And where is the key point of Lushun's fighting spirit?

“203！”

Yang Chao's pen suddenly circled a hill on a map, which is a commanding height surrounding the western mountains of Arthur Port, with an altitude of 203 meters, Yang Chao remembered that it was precisely because the Japanese army forcibly occupied the 203 heights, and then they were able to condescend and shroud the entire Lushun under their firepower, and as the heights fell and there was no hope of holding on, the Russian army was forced to surrender.

"Keep 203!"

Yang Chao punched the map hard, and he had already begun to figure out how to help the Russians defend this place.