Therefore, in order to cooperate with the offensive of the navy, Nogi Noshinori had to choose to launch an attack on Arthur, while the fleets inside and outside Port Arthur converged, and at the same time, he could force the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet to pass through the Tsushima Strait, and then let the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet, which had not been repaired, and the long-prepared combined fleet have a decisive battle, so as to decide the outcome of the battle.

Therefore, after Nogi Noshinori surrounded Lushun, the navy has always been very anxious, constantly urging Dashanyan, facing the pressure of the navy, originally prepared to make the supply situation of the Third Army better before attacking, but under the pressure of the navy, Oyamayan had to give an order to Nogi Noshinori to attack.

From the perspective of future generations, as long as everyone knows that it is extremely disadvantageous to rashly launch an attack without adequate preparations, especially now that the situation in Liaoyang is about to erupt, it is very unfavorable for the Third Army to rashly launch an attack under such circumstances.

But if we don't win the Lushun talk now, once it drags on until the winter, Japan's sea dominance will have to say goodbye.

In war, especially in an island country like Japan, once it loses its sea dominance, it is a lamb to the slaughter, so in modern times, the Japanese have been seeking to develop their naval power.

Therefore, as long as the sea supremacy is lost in the war, the Japanese army's sea supply lines will be completely cut off, and the victory of the Japanese will be so far away for them after losing supplies.

As for the situation of the Russians, at least they could continue to transport supplies and soldiers from the rear through the long Trans-Siberian Railway, and it was on this railway that Russia mobilized a large number of troops from Europe to the Far Eastern front in a short period of time, and finally surpassed the Japanese army in terms of strength, thus partially reversing the defeat.

That's why it is necessary to take Lushun at all costs, and as for why Nogi Noshinori is infamous because Nogi Noshinori's combat methods are too dull, he has no flexibility at all, and he only knows how to exchange the casualties of soldiers for positions that originally belonged to the Russians.

So, after preliminary testing, Nogi Noshinori's Third Army finally launched a general attack on Lushun in August.

After the start of the war, Nogi Noshinori thought that this battle was just to add another glory to his body, so he was very confident in the outcome of the battle.

After the start, Nogi Noshinori sent a division to attack the outlying positions of Arthur, although Nogi Noshinori had long known that the Russians were equipped with so-called heavy machine guns, but in Nogi Noshinori's opinion, his soldiers could still take this outlying position.

But the ensuing battle situation surprised Nogi Noshinori, and the first group of soldiers who went into the attack were directly killed and wounded, but even if he suffered such casualties, Nogi Noshinori still didn't know how to be flexible and used his pig assault tactics.

It wasn't until this kind of battle damage for several days that Nogi Noshinori felt that he should change the method, but Nogi Noshinori's so-called change method was only to transfer large artillery, first by artillery to carry out a covering attack, and then by the soldiers to organize pig assault tactics.

After this, the Japanese army opened up the situation a little, but such a local advantage is also very limited, after all, this logistics is a huge problem, the shells are fired one less round, and the speed of fire cannot keep up with the speed of supply.

So Nogi Noshinori's face has always been black these days, and even with a black face, Nogi Noshinori has been directing the attack.

From the beginning of the battle, the fighting on the outlying positions has been fierce, the frenzied two armies have vowed to defeat their opponents at all costs, the Japanese regard the gains and losses of Lushun as the key to the success or failure of the whole war, and the Russian troops who hold the city are in a situation of fighting on their backs, so their competition here is very fierce from the beginning.

Although the Russians were repeatedly defeated and retreated, their stubborn resistance with their strong fortifications inflicted heavy casualties on the attacking Japanese troops.

Especially in the battle for Nanshan on the outskirts of Lushun, it took several companies of the Japanese army a day to conquer this projectile place at the cost of more than 4,400 casualties.

After this casualty data was delivered to the Japanese base camp, Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro couldn't believe that there would be such a battle loss under the command of Nogi Noshinori, and even once wondered if it was when copying, there was an extra zero copied later, so Kodama Gentaro also specially asked Nogi Noshinori again, and after getting a reply from Nogi Noshinori, he believed that this was just such a projectile-like peripheral position to pay so much price, and I don't know how much it would cost to take Lushun!

Later, Nogi Noshinori was a little dissatisfied when he saw such a battle loss but only took such a projectile land, so Nogi Noshinori was ready to invest more troops, but because the outer positions were limited by narrow terrain, it was difficult for colleagues to accommodate too many army attacks, so under the persuasion of Chief of Staff Chikosuke Iji, Nogi Noshinori gave up the idea of increasing offensive forces, and instead used the tactics of rotation.

To put it bluntly, this rotation tactic is that if this wing is disabled, then send another wing to attack, and so on and so forth.

So just in the outer position, Nogi Noshinori sent a division of strength to attack in turn, and the Russian army's garrison force began to increase from the original three battalions to the current seven battalions, as for sending more soldiers to defend the peripheral positions, the Russian army can no longer do it, after all, the capacity of soldiers in the peripheral positions is limited, and it is impossible to send more soldiers.

It was only seven days since the beginning of the battle, and the Japanese army had suffered heavy casualties, of course, the Russian army was not comfortable, under the fierce artillery attack of the Japanese army, and the tireless charge of the Japanese army, part of the positions on the periphery had been taken away by the Japanese with the flow of people, and the Russian defense line on the periphery began to shrink continuously.

After a total of two weeks of launch, many officers gathered together in the military headquarters of the Third Army, of course, this time the gathering was not to discuss any tactical issues, but Nogi Noshinori needed to have a practical understanding of the battle damage after the start of the general offensive, these officers of the Third Army just happened to come to the military headquarters, and after these division commanders sat down, the chief of staff of the Third Army, Chikosuke Iji, looked at the official document in his hand and read it:

"Since the beginning of the general offensive, we have invested a total of the strength of a total of divisions and regiments, and the results are as follows: in the early stage of the battle for the outer positions, our army suffered a total of 6,000 casualties, of which more than 2,000 were killed and more than 4,000 were wounded.

The list of officers who are now killed in battle is as follows"

The list of fallen officers was quite long, and it was Yukisuke Ichi who couldn't believe it when he read it the last few times, let alone the division commanders who sat on the top of the position.

All of a sudden, there was a lot of discussion in the military headquarters of the entire Third Army.