Chapter 110: Meat grinder
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Since July, the fighting between Japan and Russia in Liaoyang has continued to escalate, and then the two sides have continued to increase their troops, and the Japanese army alone has withdrawn all the domestic troops in order to increase the troops, from the original more than 100,000 troops to more than 200,000, and the Russian army has not sat still, and the Russian army has also reinvested more than 200,000 troops in the Liaoyang area with the advantage of the railway.
Since the stalemate in the Liaoyang War, Daiyama Iwa has always hoped that there will be a living force to join the Liaoyang War, but looking at the entire Japanese army, the military strength of the whole country has been exhausted, and the country can no longer draw any troops into the battle.
In the face of such a predicament, the two warring sides are at a loss, and no one can get the advantage, for Dashanyan, the delay in taking Liaoyang means that there is no qualification to march to Fengtian, and it is impossible to march to Fengtian, which means that their side will not be able to lay the foundation for victory in Manchuria.
The commander-in-chief of the Russian army in the Far East, Kuropatkin, also faced a problem, that is, Lushun, because the army had been blocked on the Liaoyang line, which made it impossible to effectively reinforce Lushun, and the successive reinforcement operations had to be abandoned because of the stubborn resistance of the Japanese.
So at this moment, Dashanyan had to once again set his sights on the Third Army that was attacking Lushun.
As for the current Lushun, it is still the same, the Third Army has been attacking the Arthur fortress regardless of casualties, and the casualties are still as high as ever, while Nogi Noshinori has been using the method of meat and bullet charge to attack, no matter what kind of casualties the troops on the front line encountered in front of the fortress.
This is mainly because Nogi Noshinori's command post is too far away from the front line, and Nogi Noshinori does not know the battle situation on the front line at all, and will only blindly order his soldiers to attack.
After the battle situation in Lushun reached the ears of Oyama Yan, Oyama Yan immediately sent his own Kodama Gentaro Chief of Staff, so on September 15, Kodama Gentaro rushed from Liaoyang to Lushun, and ordered Nogi to change the original tactics, focus on the 203 heights, and return to Liaoyang on October 5.
Under the supervision of Kogen Tamaro, Nogi Noshinori went to the front line for the first time and began to command the attack, and it was at this time that Nogi Noshinori learned about the casualties faced by the army on the front line.
After Nogi Noshinori learned about these circumstances, he adjusted the way of attacking, and in this case, Nogi Noshinori finally knew that he did not let the soldiers of the Third Army die in vain.
Later, under the advice of his subordinates, Nogi began to learn to dig trenches and use heavy artillery to attack non-stop, anyway, it was constant grinding.
However, after Nogi Noshinori used this method, although there was a slight change in the battle situation and the casualties were not as large as before, the navy was quite dissatisfied with Nogi Noshinori's current progress, thinking that Nogi Noshinori had a heavy burden and had not taken Lushun for a long time.
Even a number of military officers said that Nogi Noshinori should be punished for his current progress, and many people in the country ran to Nogi Noshinori's home in Tokyo and threw many stones to protest Nogi's incompetence in the Battle of Arthur.
In fact, neither the navy nor the people know what kind of difficulties the current army is experiencing, and at the beginning, the Japanese did fight smoothly without encountering any difficulties, but after experiencing the initial success, now they are finally in a predicament, and the fight is extremely hard.
The Liaoyang defense line, which is constantly stalemate, has to be filled with a lot of lives and ammunition every day, not to mention the problem of breaking through the Russian defense line, and now Dashanyan is full of thoughts about how to defend against the upcoming counterattack of the Russians and how to open up such a situation.
In such a situation, Dashanyan used several tactics and did not open up the situation, but lost the lives of many soldiers, the reason for this situation is mainly that the two sides of the war attach too much importance to the Liaoyang battlefield, which leads to the fortifications and trenches built by both sides along the battle line are extremely perverted so that there is no effective way to break through.
As the time continued to advance to November and December, Nogi Noshinori, who was commanding the battle in Lushun at the moment, had nothing to do, and decided to use the method of digging tunnels to break through the forward positions controlled by the Russian artillery, but the Russian army discovered the Japanese army's tricks in time, and dug a horizontal trench at the front line.
On November 27, the Japanese army successfully dug its parallel trench to 150-200 paces away from the circular trench on Heights 203.
And as dawn came, Japanese 280-mm howitzers and some other siege guns began to bombard the 203 heights.
By about 5 p.m., 22 shelters on Heights 203 and a section of the breastwork on the southwestern slope had been destroyed.
Subsequently, the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, the 38th Regiment of the 4th Reserve, and the 2nd Battalion of the 26th Regiment of the 7th Division launched attacks on Xishan again and again, but the Russian army ignored the absolute superiority of the Japanese army, resisted desperately, and repelled many attacks by the Japanese army at 21 o'clock that night, and began to repair the fortifications and successfully rebuilt the fortifications before the Japanese attacked again.
On November 28-29, 1904, the Japanese organized several charges, and Nogi Noshinori was forced to throw the fresh forces of the 7th Division into battle, and bombarded the 203rd Heights with unusually heavy fire.
However, because the 203 heights had already considered encountering a dense artillery attack after being reminded by Wang Bin, Nogi Noshinori's shelling did not achieve the expected effect.
On November 29, 1904 alone, Japanese artillery poured more than 1,000 shells on the 203 Heights, and both the Japanese and the Russians were fully aware of the importance of the 203 Heights to the future battle process and the outcome of the Battle of Arthur.
On November 30, 1904, Nogi Noshinori's youngest son, Second Lieutenant Nogi Honori, was killed by the Russian army 300 meters from the north slope when he attacked the high ground.
Perhaps it was the death of the youngest son and the previous eldest son that caused Nogi Noshinori to lose the last shred of his senses, and Nogi Noshinori then reversed his usual cautious combat methods and continued to attack.
The name of Lushun's meat grinder began to be widely called.
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