Section 98: Battle of Mukden (1)

But this kind of work, even if he doesn't go to school in Germany, Wu Peifu, who studied surveying and mapping in the Beiyang Military Academy, can also do it, which makes him feel that going to Germany is a complete waste. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The most important thing is that he is not valued at all, in this team, whether it is the Pole or the Black Bull, these officers don't take him very seriously, because Wu Peifu's military skills are simply too rough in the eyes of these veterans who have been training for five years.

"Wu Peifu registered and accepted six people."

It is true that the village has just been ravaged by the Russians, all the food has been robbed, some of the families who resisted have been killed, some of the girls have been ruined, and when they entered, the whole village was in tears.

Hatred, which finally inspired the courage of the simplest and kindest common people, when Ma Huwa showed the corpses of the Germans to these people, and then called on them for revenge, a dozen people joined, but after screening, only six young and strong ones were accepted.

After collecting the people, Ma Huowa immediately led the team to set off, he has rich military experience, and knows that the gunfire just now may attract the attention of the Russian army, it is very likely that there are already Cossack reinforcements coming, they have to quickly hide in the mountains, otherwise they will be trapped on the flat ground, and there is only a dead end.

As for how the Russians would retaliate against that village, it was not a matter of concern to Ma Huowa, he only cared about two points, the first was to recruit enough people, and the second was to keep everyone alive.

The first point is that Ma Huowa is not very good at it, and is groping for it, and the second point is that Ma Huowa is very good at it, he has been a soldier for ten years, and six of them have been spent in the wilderness and jungles of Africa, he knows how to deal with the guerrilla warfare of the Africans, and now what he wants to launch, that is, the kind of black brothers back then, in the eyes of the Germans despicable, shameless and without a sense of honor, Ma Huowa believes that the Russians will also have a headache.

Due to the continuous increase of Japanese troops in Lushun, and the main forces of the Russians are concentrated in the south of Mukden, along the line of Shahe, the main force of the two armies is facing each other in Shahe, so Ma Huowa and their small troops flowing behind the Russian army have been very nourishing, and have never been targeted by the large Russian army, and they are quietly snowballing.

From the Chinese New Year to January, the Japanese were immersed in increasing their troops, the Russians were actively resting in Lushun, and Yang Chao was constantly transporting various materials to Lushun, and the whole world was watching Lushun, knowing that a big war was about to break out here.

But the battle was first fought in the Mukden area.

In the third year of Hongguang in the Qing Dynasty (1905), at the end of January, the Chinese people were still celebrating the Lunar New Year, and the Russian army launched another campaign against the Japanese army.

The Russian cavalry detected a prominent position of a cavalry brigade on the right flank of the Japanese army, so Kuropatkin mobilized 100,000 men of the Russian Second Army to break through and occupy this prominent point, 40 kilometers southwest of Mukden, which was a small village called Heitaigou.

And here only 8,000 people of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry were on guard, and the brigade commander was named Akiyama Yoshiko, and now they were surrounded by 100,000 Russian troops.

There was no problem with the strategic command of the Russian army, and the tactical action was also resolute and decisive, and it successfully completed the encirclement and cutting, but there was a problem with their combat methods, and the Russian army used Cossack cavalry to charge on a large scale, and as a result, the Japanese machine guns made corpses all over the place.

The Russian army could not destroy these 8,000 people for a while, and the Japanese launched a rescue operation, and the 8th Division of Tatsumi Shangwen, which was on standby in the rear, was immediately ordered to go to the rescue.

Limi Shangwen's rescue was resolutely blocked by the Russian army in the periphery, after two days of fighting, his ammunition ran out, and Limi Shangwen was already a 60-year-old veteran, at this time, this old devil full of bushido spirit, insisted on getting, decisively let him bring the remnants of 10,000 people on the bayonet, launched a white-edged assault of tens of thousands of people.

In this way, Tsumi Shangwen tore a hole and rescued the Akiyama Kokobu, and at the same time, the 5th Division was also increased, and the Russian army ushered in another shameful defeat.

Kuropatkin ordered the 2nd Army to retreat so as not to be counter-encircled by the Japanese.

The whole world is laughing at the defeat of the Russian army, just like the previous battle of Liaoyang and the offensive and defensive battles of Shahe, thinking that this is another defeat of the Russian army.

"Kuropatkin is really a famous general!"

Wu Peifu sighed.

Yang Chao was a little strange: "This is also called a famous general?" ”

Yang Chao came to send supplies to the Russian army, and at the same time, at the agreed place, he also sent a batch of supplies to Ma Huowa and them.

chatted with them, and just said that the situation of the Russo-Japanese War, Wu Peifu and they didn't know the details, and the situation was still seen from the newspaper brought by Yang Chao, but they didn't expect Wu Peifu to praise Kuropatkin.

In front of the Japanese, they have never won, and if this is also a famous general, wouldn't the famous generals in the Qing army catch a lot of them.

Wu Peifu nodded firmly, even revealing a hint of admiration.

"Liaoyang, Shahe, Heitaigou, repeated defeats, no victory, but can retreat step by step, save troops, this is not so easy, I don't think I have this ability."

Wu Peifu sighed.

Thinking about it like this, Yang Chao suddenly noticed a different taste.

Several times of war, although the Russian army is always retreating, but after large-scale operations, it can always keep its own troops, and even in the exchange ratio, it is not at a disadvantage, the Russian army suffered 17,000 casualties in the battle of Liaoyang, and the Japanese army suffered 24,000 casualties; In the Shahe offensive and defensive battle, the Russian army suffered 40,000 casualties and the Japanese army suffered 20,000 casualties; This time, the Russian army in Heitaigou did not suffer losses.

Moreover, Kuropatkin is not blindly defending, they attack and defend each other in Shahe, and when they arrive at Heitaigou, they become active, combining offense and defense, and the battle is not passive at all.

And for the Russians, as long as they keep their troops, as long as they can hold it, it is a victory, because time is on their side.

At sea, the Second Fleet has reached the Indian Ocean, and on land, the Trans-Siberian Railway is constantly improving, the transportation capacity continues to increase, and millions of Russian troops are ready to fight in the western territories, as long as they can reach the east.

The line of the Japanese has been drawn very close, the mobilization capacity is close to the limit, the naval blockade cannot destroy the Russian fleet, Lushun has suffered heavy losses but has never captured any major fortress, and even the fortified heights like 203 have never been able to attack, the Japanese seem to have won again and again, but in fact they have not achieved any strategic advantage.

"So, this old man really has two brushes."

Yang Chao understood when he thought about it that it was a future warlord like Wu Peifu who had vision. With the military literacy of the Russians, without strong organizational skills, it is really possible to be defeated after one defeat, and Kulopatkin has failed many times but always kept the army intact.

In fact, insiders all over the world don't understand, it's just that the public opinion they created is to put pressure on the Russians, so as to influence the judgment of the tsar, because no one is on the side of the Russians in this war.

But the Russians, accustomed to fighting alone, accustomed to fighting according to their own thinking, have always ignored it.

The Japanese felt that the Russian army was difficult, especially the battle of Heitaigou, which made the Japanese army very passive, because they did not expect this battle at all.

In fact, the Japanese had been preparing for the Battle of Mukden, but they didn't expect that they hadn't taken the initiative to attack, but the Russians came out to attack them first, so they were so embarrassed that they had to break through through a white-knuckle assault.

But at the same time, it also illustrates the lack of supplies for the Japanese.

It's not that Japan doesn't have military production capacity, but the Japanese don't have resources.

Their steel production capacity is also very lacking, Yawata Iron Works is the largest steel mill, but in 1904 before the war to solve all the technical problems, began to produce steel, the main raw materials are still from Sheng Xuanhuai presided over Han Yeping purchased, the output can not keep up at all, 40,000 or 50,000 tons a year to die, so the Russo-Japanese War Japanese mainly rely on the purchase of materials to fight.

What should I do if there is a shortage of supplies, buy it!

And the nearest steel mill to them, the arsenal, is in Shandong.

"Recently, the Japanese have asked for a bit too much, and we can't eat it!"

The Japanese didn't need rifles too much, but the Japanese wanted a lot of bullets and shells, and as long as they could produce them, they were willing to buy them.

"There is no way to do this, our bullet machine, after the start of the war, has been copied two sets, but it is still not available, and the fourth set is already being installed."

American engineer Johnson said regretfully, the technicians sent by the Americans, there is no problem with the technology at all, this Johnson is an engineer of the Springfield Arsenal, he knows almost any weapon production technology, the bullet machine originally had only one set, with the beginning of the war, he presided over the construction of the second set, using the technical capabilities of Yantai Iron and Steel Plant, Qingdao Sifang Locomotive Factory, plus the arsenal itself to solve part of the problem, in an emergency to do this matter himself.

"A set of bullet machines is fully operational, day and night, and the production capacity is only 20 million a year. According to the Japanese and Russians, I don't think they can keep up without 100 million in production. ”

Originally, 100,000 rifles were equipped with 10 million bullets, but who would have thought that the intensity of the Russo-Japanese War would be so great, because there had never been a war between two industrial countries before, and the offensive and defensive intensity of this modern war was completely beyond imagination.

At the beginning of the war, when all the bullets in the factory were bought by the Japanese, Johnson suggested copying the bullet machine, because he didn't know how long the Japanese and the Russians could fight, they were all calculated according to the standards of the Franco-Prussian War, and they all thought that the two sides would be able to divide the victory and defeat in a year at most, so they couldn't keep up with the orders from abroad, and they could only produce and copy them themselves, and they were all forced out.

So the German technicians in Qingdao, the American technicians in Yantai, and the technicians in the Laiwu Arsenal hurriedly completed the replication of the first set of bullet machines under Johnson's transfer, but soon found that it was still insufficient, and then went to the second and third sets.

"You did a good job, after the war, I will suggest that the board of directors give you a bonus, in advance, at least 100,000 US dollars!"

$100,000 is a huge fortune, although the arsenal has sold more than $20 million in arms and made a profit of more than $10 million, but Johnson's salary is just like that, more than $4,000 a year.

"Thank you boss!"

Johnson overjoyed.

Yang Chao patted him on the shoulder: "Don't thank me, this is the reward you deserve." Remember to do things in China, what we pay attention to is that meritorious deeds must be rewarded and punished, and there are some things that we don't need to mention in our hearts, we all know in our hearts. Go to work, the third shell production line seems to be too slow. ”

Like the bullet machine, the shell casting line has also been expanded, but the production of shells is not as good as bullets, and a lot of equipment needs to be added, and even a new field house needs to be built, but a lot of equipment still needs to be imported, so although the second set of shell production line has been completed early, the third set still lacks a lot of equipment, and it will take a month to complete it at the earliest.