Chapter Twenty-Four: The Fall

It was already cold, and there was almost no snow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Li Dingyuan wore a gray cotton coat on his body, and then put on various armor on the outside, plus his face was black like an African, and the whole person now looked like a rampaging wild boar.

The adjutant's persuasion was ineffective, so he had to hurriedly run to the front command headquarters to send a telegram to Taiyuan.

As usual, the artillery opened the way. The volley of more than 100 artillery pieces shook the earth, enveloping the entire complex of buildings held by the Russian army in mud and gunsmoke. Li Dingyuan led a sword-drawing team of more than 100 people to sit 200 meters behind the shells.

To tell the truth, although he believed in the young men of the artillery brigade very much, he also thought about whether they would miss the shot and directly reimburse half of the people he carried. If that's the case, it's going to make people laugh out of their big teeth.

Fortunately, such nonsense did not happen, and in the past few years, the infantry tactics that have been mainly practiced are infantry and artillery coordination. After the possession of computers and fire control systems, this tactic was developed successfully. For example, now, Li Dingyuan has successfully approached a warehouse where the Russians are located with more than a hundred masters.

The woolly bears were talking loudly in the warehouse, and there was a faint gray figure shaking in the corner of the bombardment. Li Dingyuan had no scruples, and just crashed into it. In the era of rapid development of weapons, the combat effectiveness between individuals has not shrunk, but has become greater.

Although a person with high martial arts can be knocked down with one shot, a person with the same high martial arts can wear several layers of body armor on his body, coupled with bulletproof alloy armor, which is harder than the good hand of the Golden Bell Jar. People with higher martial arts skills can also carry more and more powerful weapons on their bodies.

Sharper senses, faster skills, better defense, stronger attacks, as long as they are not set on fire or washed by shells, the strong will only become stronger.

Bombing, strafing, and then hand-to-hand combat, and within a few minutes, the screams in the warehouse had stopped. Li Dingyuan looked around with coaxing eyes, and saw that the more than 100 Russian soldiers stationed here had turned into corpses that had fallen to the ground.

He glared at the fallen Russians with bloodshot eyes for a moment, and then shouted: "Go on, follow me!" ”

The company broke through more than a dozen buildings, killed and wounded three or four hundred Russian soldiers, and finally a few escaped from the net. Then, an overwhelming barrage of shells came crashing in. There were immediate heavy casualties among the team that had damaged only a few people in the previous successive battles, and a cannonball pierced through the blasted roof, exploded in a semi-sealed space, and the energy was confined in a small space, killing more than a dozen people in an instant.

At this time, Li Dingyuan's congested brain had to calm down. It is true that the impact of the sword drawing team equipped with various weapons is very strong, but the subsequent infantry is cut off by artillery fire, that is, everything is over. No matter how strong the striker's impact is, there will be a time when it is exhausted, as long as you are willing to die, as long as you consume more shells, you can completely wipe out the knife drawing team that assaults in.

Unless, the force of the sword drawer's impact is enough to penetrate the entire enemy defense.......

With this insight, Li Dingyuan withdrew with the sword drawing team that had suffered nearly one-third of the casualties. This attempt, in the end, ended in failure. Although they killed and wounded a lot of Russians, it didn't mean anything at all. It would be better to use ordinary infantry with heavy artillery for such a task.

Li Dingyuan, who understood his own limits, began to honestly dig trenches nearby, pull barbed wire, and surrounded all the Russians in this area. The Russians on the other side of the river tried twice to save the encircled Russian troops. However, in the face of a complete infantry defense system, the Russians were already covered with corpses before they could rush to the front of the position.

When the artillery fire is completely suppressed, if you want to rely on infantry to capture the ring fortifications, unless they can have the technical and tactical level of the volunteer army in another world. Even the volunteers, later in the face of the ring fortifications of the Americans, were at a loss. It's not that it can't be defeated, but if you want to fight it, there are too many dead and wounded, and no wise general will do that kind of loss-making business.

However, there were still such generals in the Japanese Army at the end of the Meiji era. This person is Nogi Noshinori, who was once made a military god by the Japanese, and was later severely criticized by a group of Showa warlords.

After the attack on Lushun failed again and again, Nogi Noshinori did not know at all that he organized a third attack flexibly. This time the attack was even more brutal, and thousands of Japanese soldiers fell under the guns of the Russians.

After Gentaro Kodama arrived in the Third Army, he couldn't help but be terrified that the casualties were so serious. Then, he kicked Nogi to the side, rolled up his sleeves and got on himself.

Kodama's use of artillery was far stronger than Nogi's, and after adjusting the deployment, he conquered the 203 heights in one day. The fall of the highlands basically decided the fate of the Lushun war. The Japanese set up observation posts on the high ground, corrected artillery fire, and bombarded the Russian fleet with 280mm large-caliber howitzers used for coastal defense.

Although General Kondelachko, who was called the "soul" of the Russian army's defense by the Russians, did not die in battle like in another world, the morale of the Russian army was already extremely low. At this time, the Russians were left with only two fates: being killed by artillery bombardment, or rushing out and dying in front of the Japanese defense line.

Then the Russians chose the path of the third day - surrender.

It was only delayed for less than a month, and on January 28, the Russian side formally signed the instrument of surrender. At this time, the Russian army still had more than 30,000 officers and men, more than 600 artillery pieces, and more than 200,000 shells. In the course of the entire Battle of Arthur, the Russian army lost more than 44,000 people, and the Japanese army lost about 60,000 people.

So strictly speaking, the Japanese in Lushun homeopathy is not particularly serious. The losses of troops on both sides were roughly 3:2, and the loss of such an ice-free port as Arthur by the Russians decided the tragic fate of their expeditionary fleet.

As long as Lushun contained a large number of Japanese troops, and as long as the Russian fleet at the mouth of Arthur still existed, the Japanese army could not decide the outcome of the war. If the Russian fleet in Europe were to move eastward, it could also change the situation at sea and cut off the Japanese supply lines at sea. Therefore, the Japanese army's capture of Arthur at a heavy cost was, in the final analysis, the solution to the fundamental problem of the Russo-Japanese War -- sea supremacy.

For an island nation like Japan, sea supremacy is the matter of life and death. If the Russian expeditionary fleet cannot be disposed of, no matter how much you win on land, you will lose it all.