When the whole Liaodong Army seized the time to expand its strength, the Japanese army was not idle. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Nearly 100,000 elites only took five days to advance the defense line outside Mukden City.

The Russian army, which had the last remaining stronghold in the Liaodong region, was not idle either.

Nearly 50,000 troops who had retreated from the Liaohe defense line were all sent outside the city to repair their positions after being reorganized.

Although he has an absolute superiority in troops, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army also knows that artillery is his own shortcoming.

Three telegrams a day sent to the Far East asking for heavy artillery support to narrow the gap between themselves and the Japanese army.

However, from the Far East to Mukden, it will take about a month at the earliest. And the Japanese simply could not give them so much time to prepare.

Nearly 100,000 Japanese troops, after only five days of rest, began to attack the Russian positions outside the city of Mukden.

Because a large number of artillery pieces and shells were captured from the Russian army, the Japanese army showed no mercy in the whole attack.

When encountering a slightly more difficult Russian position, it immediately used heavy artillery to bombard. It was only after leveling the Russian positions that he stopped and ordered the troops to continue the attack.

In this way, in less than five days, the Russian army lost all the defensive lines on the periphery and prepared to rely on Mukden City to fight the final battle with the Japanese army.

The fighting was fierce, and although the Russians had walls to defend them, they also hoarded mountains of various supplies in the city.

However, the Russian army still held on for just over ten days.

When the fortifications of the city were torn open by the Japanese army, and more and more Japanese troops began to pour into Fengtian City, the Russian troops on the other city defenses directly collapsed......

The Battle of Mukden, which lasted nearly twenty days, ended in a complete victory for the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army also suffered heavy losses and could not continue to fight.

However, in order to take Lushun as soon as possible, the last stronghold of the Russian army in Liaodong.

The Japanese army, which had just taken Mukden, still drew two divisions and a large number of artillery from its limited strength to the south.

A month later, with the help of the navy, the Japanese army successfully took Lushun, and since then, the entire Liaodong, except for a dozen or so county towns controlled by the Liaodong Army, has fallen into the hands of the Japanese.

Seeing that the two great powers of Japan and Russia had suffered heavy losses in this decisive battle, they were no longer able to stand on their feet.

Countries such as Europe and the United States, which do not want to see Northeast China being carved up by Japan and Russia like this, come forward.

After the mediation of European and American powers, Japan and Russia finally decided to stop this war, use the existing defense line as the dividing line, and share Northeast China together!

And the Liaodong region, which completely surrounded the Liaodong Army, undoubtedly became the territory of the Japanese army.

As a result of this coordination, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army, Oyamayan, was very dissatisfied.

"Yaga, how can this be! Liaodong was bought by the empire with the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and it should have belonged to us. As a defeated country, Russia should give us some compensation in all sense and reason. But as a result, not even a county seat was taken out! ”

"It's not coordination at all, it's helping the Russians! How can the empire take over such a coordinated result, I am not convinced! ”

The chief of staff on the side calmed down a lot, and after thinking about it, he analyzed: "They are helping the Russians!" The European and American powers did not want to see us dominate Northeast China and use the resources here to rise rapidly, so they had to help the Russian army as a last resort and ask us to stop the offensive! ”

"One of the reasons why the empire agreed to this obviously unfair coordination was that the empire was not strong enough to compete with the old powers such as Europe and the United States. Another reason is that the empire is no longer able to fight! ”

"After statistics, after several consecutive battles, the empire's losses in Liaodong have reached 150,000, plus the wounded, that is nearly 200,000 soldiers!"

"With the loss of so many soldiers, coupled with the large amount of materials, weapons and ammunition consumed on the battlefield in Liaodong, the limited national strength of the empire can no longer afford this kind of attrition!"

"At present, only by stopping the war and using the resources of Liaodong to replenish the empire with new blood can the empire get out of the quagmire of war and regain its national strength. Therefore, it seems that there is no way for the Empire to agree to this unfair coordination result! ”

"Bageya Road, those countries in Europe and the United States like to rob while the fire is burning, and when the national strength of the empire surpasses them one day, they must make them look good!" Da Shanyan, who was holding back his anger, could only vent his anger and dissatisfaction through scolding at this time.

At this time, the chief of staff on the side reminded in a low voice: "Commander-in-chief, this is an order just sent by the Imperial Military Department: let us eliminate the bandits in Liaodong as soon as possible!" The empire will immediately send professionals and companies to Liaodong to open mines, and continuously import Liaodong minerals into China to develop the domestic economy! ”

Speaking of this, Dashan Yan is also angry.

Eliminating bandits is easy to say. But there is no doubt that it will be difficult to do it.

In the whole of Liaodong, the biggest bandit is the Liaodong Army, if the Liaodong Army is eliminated so easily, then it will not continue to grow and develop in the Liaozhong area.

"Yaga!" Dashan Yan couldn't help but curse again.

The chief of staff continued: "Commander-in-chief, the several counties in Liaozhong controlled by the Liaodong Army not only have a lot of resources that the empire needs, but also have a population in Liaodong that exceeds Qicheng. In any case, we must hold it in our own hands, otherwise, the Empire's goal of getting resources from Liaodong will be slow to be realized! ”

At this time, Da Shanyan also slowly regained his composure, and said with a murderous face: "Liaodong Army, it's time to deal with them!" ”

"In the past, there were Russian troops echoing them, and the empire did not dare to concentrate forces against them! Now, the empire has no worries and will definitely be able to concentrate heavy forces and destroy them in one fell swoop! ”

"Commander-in-chief, you have a solution!" The chief of staff hurriedly asked.

"No, I don't need a solution either!" Dashan Yan shook his head and replied.

"In the face of the cunning Liaodong army, we can only win if we completely overwhelm them with great strength. As for the so-called conspiracy, no matter how thorough it is, loopholes may appear, and the Liaodong Army is too cunning, as long as they discover these loopholes, they will definitely be able to deal a fatal blow to us. ”

"With the Liaodong Army, I have fought many times, no matter what conspiracy and tricks, it will not work in front of the Liaodong Army, they all have a way to crack it!"

The chief of staff thought about it and replied: "That's true, Yang Xingguo, commander of the Liaodong Army, has a very vicious vision, as long as we expose a little loophole, he can find it!" Commander-in-chief, then how are you going to fight? ”

"Concentrate six divisions and 100,000 elites, two heavy artillery brigades, and divide the troops into two sentences to launch an attack on the occupied area of the Liaodong Army!"

"Last time we cooperated with the Russian army to attack the Liaodong Army, the reason why we failed was because we were suspicious of each other and didn't trust each other!"

"Now it's the Imperial Army that is attacking, so there is no suspicion!"

"As long as the two armies march together and launch an attack on the Liaodong Army together, with the limited strength of the Liaodong Army, they can only take care of one and lose the other! When the time comes, at least one of our two armies will be able to directly kill the headquarters of the Liaodong Army! (To be continued.) )