After Wang Bin reached deals with Germany and the United States, time passed quickly.

The Russo-Japanese War has been fought from February 1904 to the beginning of July now.

The war has been going on for five months, and Wang Bin was originally worried about whether the rhythm of the war would change in this parallel time and space, but the rhythm of the war in the past few months all shows that the rhythm of the war has been moving forward according to the pace in Wang Bin's memory.

In May, the 2nd Army (4 divisions, about 40,000 men, 216 guns, commanded by General Obaogong) began to land at Piziwo in the southeast of the Liaodong Peninsula in early May, in an attempt to capture Lushun from the north.

At the end of May 1904, the 2nd Army entered Golden State.

Defending the area was the Russian 4th Infantry Division, which was responsible for covering the approach north of Arthur.

This division had a total of 18,000 men, but only 1 regiment (3,800 men) was sent to the position, and the rest of the troops were all in reserve, 10~12 kilometers away from the front line.

Subsequently, the 2nd Army was launched into the attack with 3 divisions, 10 times the enemy's strength, 5 times the enemy's firepower, and could also be supported by naval artillery at any time.

In the midst of the disparity in numbers, the main force of the Russian fleet remained unmoved, and only two or three ships were dispatched to strengthen the right flank of the Russian army.

Later, the commander of the Russian army on the Liaodong Peninsula, Stepel, ordered the Fokker division to abandon Dalian and retreat towards Lushun.

The Japanese then occupied Jinzhou and Dalian and advanced towards Lushun. (The Battle of Nanshan in Jinzhou, Russia, Japan) Because Kondrachenko, commander of the Lushun ground forces, insisted on taking advantage of the favorable terrain around Lushun to fortify, the Japanese army was finally blocked on the line 25~30 kilometers north of Lushun.

After the Japanese army succeeded in landing on all directions, it established the "Manchurian Army General Headquarters" on June 20, 1904, with Marshal Dashanyan as the commander-in-chief and unified command of all Japanese troops.

At the same time, in order to conquer Lushun, Japan also deliberately formed the Third Front Army, and the commander of the Third Front Army was the famous Nogi Noshinori, so Nogi Noshinori became the main general of the Japanese army in the land battlefield in the Russo-Japanese War.

In this war, Nogi Noshinori brought 3 coffins by himself to show that he and his two sons died in the war of aggression and served the Japanese Empire.

Nogi Noshinori was able to become the Third Front Army this time, and among them was Yamaguchi Youtomo, who contributed part of his efforts.

On October 24, 1894, he led the vanguard of the invasion of China to land at Huayuankou on the Liaodong Peninsula, and undertook the task of attacking Jinzhou, an important town in eastern Liaodong, and occupied the Dalian Bay Fort, easily seizing a large number of weapons and equipment of the Qing army.

After that, it took another two hours to easily occupy Lushun.

In the words of a Japanese general at the time, it was just a matter of walking to take over.

This person also committed unforgivable sins during the First Sino-Japanese War, when Lushun broke the city, he slaughtered 20,000 innocent civilians in Lushun in a terrible place, and he and Shandi Genji were the culprits of the heinous crimes.

After that, he led the Japanese army north to occupy Fuzhou, ordered the gate of Fuzhou to be closed, and even though his subordinates looted, looted, burned and killed, they did all kinds of evil.

The invasion footprint spread all over the Liaodong Peninsula, and thousands of Chinese corpses paved the way for his promotion to the rank of knight.

This time, Oyama Iwa specially appointed Nogi Noshinori as the commander of the Third Army, and there was also a hope that Nogi Noshinori could reappear in the forefront of conquering Lushun during the First Sino-Japanese War.

Japan also believed that if Nogi went into battle, he would definitely win, and the occupation of Arthur was just around the corner.

At the same time, Nicholas II instructed the commander-in-chief of the Russian Army in the Far East, Kuropatkin, to launch an offensive, holding him "responsible for the fate of Arthur."

Petersburg warned Kuropatkin: "The loss of Arthur would be the heaviest blow to Russia's political and military prestige not only in the Far East, but also in the Near East, Central Asia and Europe."

Undoubtedly, Russia's enemies will take advantage of this to embarrass us as much as possible, and friends will abandon Russia as a weak ally. ”

Under pressure from the tsarist government, Kuropatkin reluctantly sent the troops of one army (the 1st Siberian Army under the command of Stackerburg) south to support Arthur.

At the same time that the Tsarist government was trying to protect Lushun, in order to conquer Lushun as soon as possible, the Japanese side let the First Army, the Second Army, and the Fourth Army, which had just landed, move in the direction of Liaoyang together in an attempt to contain the Russian army.

On June 14~15, 1904, the army encountered the Japanese 2nd Army in the area of Deli Temple and Wafangdian, and the Russian army was defeated and retreated in disarray. Since then, Lushun's connection with the main forces of the Russian army in the northeast has been completely cut off. In order to attack Lushun, the Japanese army had to ensure the safety of the rear of the 3rd Army so that it would not be attacked by the Russian forces assembled in the area south of Liaoyang. Therefore, in late June 1904, the 3st Army, the 2nd, and 4th Armies (landing from Dagushan) began to move in the direction of Liaoyang in an attempt to contain the Russian army there.

Against this background, the two sides gathered heavy forces in Liaoyang, and the later Battle of Liaoyang took place shortly thereafter.

After the Japanese army completed a series of covers for the Lushun operation, the Third Army, led by Nogi Noshinori, which had been dormanous for a long time, also launched a tentative attack on Lushun.

But Nogi Noshinori caused a lot of casualties on his side even if he attacked tentatively, but he didn't even take a position in Lushun, and instantly slapped himself in the face with an extremely loud slap.

The reason for this is that Nogi Noshinori's tactical thinking has fallen far behind, and until now Nogi Noshinori's tactical thinking has remained during the Sino-Japanese War.

In one case, at this time, Lushun is no longer the Lushun that was taken by Nogi Noshinori before, but the "first fortress in the Far East" after being painstakingly managed by the Russian army.

And at this time, Nogi Noshinori's brain was still a little rigid, if ordinary officers saw that they would pay a great price for forcibly taking Lushun, they were afraid that they would turn their eyes to Liaoyang, but Nogi Noshinori was like a head that couldn't turn around, and he set his eyes on Lushun, which led to huge casualties in the later Lushun offensive and defensive battles.

For the time being, the best way should be to surround but not fight, send part of the forces to contain Lushun, and join the drawn army into the upcoming battle of Liaoyang, there is no need to invest a lot of military power to attack Lushun.

Just when the war between the Japanese and the Russians began to gradually heat up, an incident also happened in the fifth town at this time, and He Zonglian, the former co-commander of the Tenth Association, had to apply to Yuan Shikai for transfer because he was excluded in the fifth town, and Yuan Shikai also agreed to He Zonglian's application and transferred He Zonglian to other places.

For Wang Bin, He Zonglian's transfer is a good thing.