Chapter 170: The Pastoral Meat Grinder

Two firefighters of the third company jumped out of the bunker and took the opportunity to get close to the enemy's firing point, and at a distance of about 50 meters, one fireman carried a rocket launcher and the other loaded it. The nervous soldiers took longer than usual to reload, and after aiming, they pulled the trigger, and a rocket burrowed into the house where the Japanese were and exploded violently, and the third company successfully eliminated the fire point.

But the two firefighters were in the open area for too long, and one fighter was hit by a Japanese soldier hiding in the shadows, and the other tried to drag it back, but was also hit.

"One platoon of fire cover, two platoons and three platoons occupy the surrounding buildings and clear the enemy!" Ma Chao ordered, and then crawled out of the bunker with two soldiers to drag back the wounded two firefighters, but unfortunately, one of the fighters was hit by the vital point and died on the spot.

"Regiment commander, the three companies of the first battalion asked for support, they ran out of grenades, and they were surrounded by more than 400 Japanese soldiers in a building!" Zhao Xin looked at the herald who was also disgraced, and said loudly: "There is no support, let them figure it out by themselves!" Zhao Xin felt that all the tactics he had learned had lost their effect, most of his troops had lost contact, and there were even Japanese troops attacking next to his regimental headquarters! There may only be a wall between them.

Fortunately, the 3rd Division did not let the 1st Regiment fight alone for too long, and then the 1st Regiment attracted all the attention of the Japanese army, and the 3rd Division and 2nd Regiment landed head-on from the port of Jeju and joined the street fighting, so that the situation of the battle immediately developed in favor of the Chinese army. Although Nojiri's wing resisted stubbornly, in the early morning of July 2, the battle for Jeju Castle was completely over, and Nojiri's wing was completely annihilated.

The street fighting did not last long, but it gave the Jeongguk army a lot of experience in street fighting, and the buildings in Jeju Fortress were mostly made of wood, and a few were made of stone, so such buildings could easily be destroyed by fire. Moreover, Jeju City is not large, which is a factor that the third division can successfully win the street battle. Even so, the regiment of the main combat force suffered more than 500 casualties in the Battle of Jeju.

The landing of the 3rd Division was followed by engineering troops, who wanted to repair the port as soon as possible, build a material warehouse, an airship berth, a field airfield, and provide a relay airfield for bombers flying from Shanghai. There are also oil depots, ammunition depots, and so on. The 3rd Division, on the other hand, established fortifications around Jeju Fortress and sent troops to advance deep into Jeju Island to expand the defensive depth of Jeju Port in case of enemy invasion.

From the perspective of the outside world, China is definitely a capitalist country at present, the booming bourgeoisie occupies the mainstream of society, countless factory owners are desperately pooling capital, recruiting workers, building factories, and supplying countless orders, and Lu Liang, the president of China, is a super big capitalist. It controls most of China's heavy industrial enterprises, and is listed by the great powers as a typical example of a consortium ruling a country.

In Lv Liang's view, their generalization is not accurate, at present private capital is still growing, most of them are not able to enter the field of heavy industry, in order to leapfrog development, Lv Liang has to let heavy industry enterprises develop under their own traction. Moreover, China does not prohibit private enterprises in setting up heavy industry enterprises, and a group of big capitalists, including his father-in-law Wu Shimin, have discovered the super profits of heavy industry. A number of small and medium-sized heavy industrial enterprises have also been jointly established.

When private capital grows, Lu Liang doesn't mind selling his stakes in heavy industry companies. Only market-oriented industry is full of vitality and power, and its development can be faster and better. LĂź Liang also tried to nationalize the heavy industry enterprises under the consortium, but was blocked for the simple reason that once they become state-owned enterprises, they will become lifeless in a short time. Nothing was visible in the wartime, when most of the enterprises, including private light industry enterprises, were integrated into the national industrial system.

This industrial system consisted of bank loans, technical management guidance, state orders, banks providing loans to the capitalists, and state technical and administrative departments providing guidance to enable the factories to run as quickly as possible. The order is then issued by the state. Among them, the national order is the final link and the most important link.

Through the war and infrastructure construction, China's demand for products is in an endless state, and orders from the army, sales to Japan and now to Russia, and infrastructure construction have driven the entire market supply to exceed demand. As long as you open a factory, you will make money, and the goods circulating in the market account for only a small part of all goods, of course, with the increase in the income of residents, the market will gradually expand, and eventually become the mainstream of consumption, but the current market is still supported by the state.

This economic model is similar to that of Germany before World War II and the United States under Roosevelt's New Deal, but the difference is that China's finances are extremely abundant, which is also something that other countries can't figure out. Could it be that all the wealth accumulated in China for thousands of years was inherited by Lu Liang?

The gold and silver from the seabed mining vehicles and the salvage from the seabed shipwrecks are the inexhaustible source of Huaguo's finances and the greatest confidence of Lvliang. He can order banks to issue money according to the market, and ultra-high reserves of gold can keep the economy running healthily without major risks. Lu Liang didn't know how many precious metals he had in his hands now, and it wasn't until Lu Min handed over the statistical results to Lu Liang that he realized that he was so rich! Seven thousand tons of gold, that's enough to support several large-scale wars!

After the signing of the Sino-Russian secret treaty, some of the already scarce supplies had to be transported to Vladivostok, but fortunately, most of the needed food there, medicine, and ammunition were needed, and the demand for weapons and oil was very small. Before Xue Peng's meeting with Ramsdorff, the Chinese side began to prepare the supplies to Vladivostok, and the first batch of supplies arrived in Vladivostok on the third day after the secret treaty was signed.

On July 3, 1905, the Governor-General of the Russian Far East personally went to the port dock to greet the Chinese transport fleet and the cruiser detachment led by Vice Admiral Enkovist, and Vladivostok was full of joy. With the return of the cruiser detachment, the Russian Pacific Fleet, with one capital ship, seven cruisers, five destroyers, and seven torpedo boats, has initially regained its strength, and they will join the blockade of Japan in the next stage.

The supplies brought by 150 Chinese transport ships not only fed the Russian soldiers, but also restored the bullet bags to normal, the artillery also had shells to fire, and grenades, bayonets, military uniforms, and even water bottles and sapper shovels were welcomed by the gray cattle.

No one knows the suffering of the Russian soldiers fighting in the Northeast, the supplies that came thousands of miles from the European part of Russia, which were stripped of by officials and generals, the lack of winter clothes in winter, the padded jackets sent in summer, the lack of gun oil during the battle, the lack of bullets when shooting, and sometimes eating some potatoes is like a holiday! The most important thing is that when you often look back, you find that the commander has gone away, and the defeat of this war is not the fault of the soldiers at all, but the reason of everyone except the first soldiers!

Fortunately, His Majesty the Emperor has found a good ally, and the character of the Chinese is obviously more reliable than that of the officials and lords of their country, and the materials that are continuously transported from Vladivostok to the front line can be shared by the soldiers even if some of them are embezzled by the officials and generals. Many gray cattle were demoralized after receiving supplies, and the Chinese rubber shoes on their feet made people have the urge to run, and it seemed that they could rush to the position of the Japanese army on the opposite side in the next moment.

In fact, the Minister of War Kuropatkin did not waste these supplies, and on the third day after the arrival of the Chinese fleet in Vladivostok, a full-scale attack was launched against the Japanese army, and the gray cattle with a strong fighting will regained their positions in the Battle of Mukden within two days, and reoccupied the city of Mukden.

The battle was not fierce, mainly because the upper echelons of the Japanese army did not want or could not fight with the Russian army, and the cut off logistics made them lose the capital to launch a large-scale ground battle, and Marshal Oyamayan had to order the Japanese army to shrink and retreat to the Liaodong Peninsula in an all-round way, and the results of nearly half a year were lost in a few days.

But the pace of the Russian army stopped, and the shrinking Japanese army collected supplies and built a solid defensive position on the Liaoyang line, blocking the Russian army to the death. The shrinking force meant that the defense was strong, but the Japanese suffered huge losses in this battle, with more than 37,000 soldiers killed and wounded.

The loss of personnel is secondary, and the consumption of materials is even more devastating, not only is the already scarce ammunition day by day, but even the basic food supply is also in question. The consumption of more than 500,000 people was too great, and the agriculture near the Liaodong Peninsula was severely destroyed by the war, and there was famine among the civilian population, making it too difficult to collect food from the local area. As a result, North Korea's grain was collected in large quantities, and Japanese soldiers and Korean puppet soldiers snatched food from civilians and large households, and wantonly slaughtered North Korean civilians who tried to resist.

With the help of Huaguo, the Northeast Battlefield made waves again, and the battle on the Kagoshima battlefield in Kyushu became more intense, from daytime attacks to night attacks, and then to the current part of the day and night, Utsunomiya used human lives to fill the big hole of the Makuen position, but never stepped into the position of the Chinese army. (To be continued.) )