The battlefield has always been subordinated to politics.

When politics does not need war, then war must stop, and when politics needs war, then war will continue.

Throughout the ages, battle after battle has proved this time and time again.

In order to "prove our determination to the book with cannons," the vast black land outside the border became a bloody political negotiating table.

Clausewitz said: "The concept of defense is defense, and in defense there is waiting, and we consider waiting to be the main feature of defense, and at the same time the main advantage of defense." ”

Shenyang is also waiting. This kind of waiting is rare in war: digging trenches and holding out for nine days, waiting for the chatter at the Nanjing negotiating table to subside, and signing an armistice agreement.

However, 10 days after the armistice agreement was reached but not signed, with a telegram, China and the two countries once again began a new round of "negotiations" in Shenyang, replacing the diplomats with the weapons in the hands of the soldiers of the two countries.

You have me, I have you, perhaps this sentence is more appropriate to describe the battlefield of the two [***] teams in the Shenyang front, although the terrain around Shenyang is not complicated, but Shenyang is the most complicated place in the entire northeast.

It is even so complicated that out of caution in controlling the scale of the war, both the general staff headquarters of the two countries have repeatedly ordered the front-line troops not to act rashly, and if you look at it from the air, Mukden is a circle, a three-tiered circle.

The center of the circle is Mukden City, which the Yue army failed to conquer on the first day of the war, and outside Mukden City, the defense line of the Nogi Army is the army, and outside the Nogi Army is the defensive line of the six divisions of the Guards, the Chinese in the circle cannot get out, the Yue army cannot enter, and the Yue army outside the circle cannot go out, and when they attack the city, they will be suppressed by the superior long-range firepower outside the city, and they want to break through to the outside of the encirclement, but they do not have enough troops.

People in the circle can't get out, people outside the circle can't get in, this is Shenyang, a [***] thing observer after seeing it, all shook their heads and sighed "the strangest battlefield in the strange war", but this does not prevent the soldiers of the two countries in this most strange battlefield from surrounding me and me surrounding you, talking with guns and cannons.

In the fields of the Pingchuan River, the warm wind blows the green grass and colorful flowers, winter goes to spring, and it is another spring, when the warm wind blowing from the south reaches Mukden, it is almost a few days. Flowers and grass shade the communication trenches leading to the front, ending in a hundred-mile-long ring ditch with barbed wire rising along the edge.

The wind blows the vines onto the barbed wire, and the thistles bloom with fragrant buds that may bloom into flowers in a few days.

A few buds moved, wearing a camouflage net made of fishing nets, Wu Kaize picked up his rifle, and with the help of a scope imported from Germany, aimed at the position of the army, sniper, this is a branch of the army that jumped out of this war, although in the past there were some "excellent marksmen" in the Guards who held carefully selected rifles and mounted German scopes, but in the strange battlefield of Mukden, snipers quickly became an indispensable profession.

Wu Kaize, who was searching the trenches of the army with the help of a four-fold magnified Chase sight, did not know that the scope in his hand came to China with a lot of twists and turns, and the scope was a four-fold shotgun scope produced by Chase, which was ordered by an American businessman, but was purchased by the Chinese Embassy in Germany at a high price, and in order to ensure that these scopes could be used on the front line as soon as possible, the sights were transported from Germany to China by train through Russia, and in order to ensure the smooth passage of the sights through Russia, the intelligence officers of the Russian legation in Russia bribed the officials of the Russian railway transportation departmentAfter the 3,000 scopes were disguised as "military supplies of the Russian army" and sent to Ulan-Ude, they were transported to Kyakhta overnight by the caravans, and then transported to the front line by reconnaissance planes in Kyakhta, and then the rifles were modified by the field ordnance station, and finally the transformed steps were delivered to the soldiers, but it took only nine days.

Carrying the ammunition box, Matsumoto Motoro was marching forward in the trench, and in the trench, the soldiers with all kinds of shovels were desperately deepening the trench, and in order to avoid these people who deepened the trench, his blue soft cloth hat appeared and disappeared behind the chest wall of the trench.

"Be careful!"

The reminder of his friend made him lower his body again, and since yesterday when the Chinese first fired a row of shells, the silent Mukden City was lively again, although the Chinese army did not attack, but they hunted like hunting, hunting any guy who peeked out of the trench.

How many guys died yesterday?

Two hundred or three hundred?

Matsumoto Motoro didn't know, and he didn't want to know, for him, the most important thing was probably not to die, he was an only son, he knew what his responsibilities were, to support his parents, to inherit the ancestors, to pass on the ancestry, so he couldn't die, he did everything possible to make himself careful.

Don't die!

While muttering to himself in his heart, he lowered his body again, perhaps because he was too careful, and accidentally stepped on a military coo.

"Bastard, don't you have eyes?"

Matsumoto Motoro, who was scolded by Juncao, instinctively raised his head.

At the moment when the head appeared in the scope, Wu Kaize pulled the trigger without hesitation, and at the same time as the gun rang out, his shoulder was slammed, and the head wearing the navy blue military hat in the scope seemed to have been hit by something, and he pushed it towards the south first, and the other side of the hat was rushed away by the bullet, and there seemed to be some white objects in the sky with the bullet.

One shot kills!

"It's finally open!"

Wu Kaize muttered with satisfaction, when he muttered, he only heard gunshots in the air, the army returned fire, it was aimless shooting, when the army returned fire, he once again searched for the target according to the sniper rifle, and after hitting another soldier, Wu Kaize knew that he should transfer his position.

"Whoa!"

When the bolt was pulled, the hot bullet case popped out, and he casually stuffed the bullet case into his pocket, holding the gun in his left hand, Wu Kaize quietly withdrew from his position and moved towards another external reserve position.

"How?"

As soon as he entered the trenches, the soldiers in the trenches turned their attention to this "sharpshooter".

"Kill two!"

"Okay! A while ago, we couldn't kill two in a day, and you only worked hard in two days, and you killed ten, and if you continue to fight like this, maybe you don't need us to attack, and you will be able to clean up that little nose! ”

"That's okay! Now they are all better than monkeys, and they can't see a single head for a long time! You'll have to think of something to force them out. ”

When Wu Kaize said this, one of the sergeants in the shelter nodded first, and then answered.

"I'll figure it out for you!"

As he spoke, he picked up the phone from the side.

"Hey! Mortar platoon? After two minutes, a few shells were fired at the third and sixth of the standard! ”

"Thank you!"

"Thank you! They are all their own brothers! ”

A few minutes later, after a dull whistle, several shells fell in front of and behind the trenches, and as the soldiers dodged the shelling, there were once again several more corpses in the trenches that had been accurately hit in the head or chest.

The battle may not be fierce, but sometimes, this kind of cold gun that is not known from there will severely damage the morale of the front-line soldiers, and no one knows when they will die, maybe just to show a head, maybe to look at the position of the Chinese army.

"Hey!"

Looking at the death report, Nogi Noshinori sighed heavily while frowning.

Looking at the schematic diagram of the defense line on the wall, the thinnest defensive depth is only less than 500 meters, and there are more than ten salients controlled by the Chinese army like this, as long as they want, they can gather heavy troops at any time to cut off these thin defensive positions.

"Your Excellency, according to your instructions, we have now built thirteen outer fortified areas outside Fengtian City, once the Chinese army breaks through, all troops will defend the fortified area, so as to ...... as much as possible."

Nogi Noshinori interrupted the chief of staff's report, he shook his head at first, and then said.

"Now the success or failure of Fengtian City is not important!"

As he spoke, he took out a document from the folder on his desk, which had been sent by the Tokyo General Staff Headquarters.

"Yesterday, Lu's Second Pacific Fleet had sailed past Singapore and is now heading towards the Far East, as long as the navy defeats the Luguo Navy, then both China and Luguo are doomed to defeat in this war, and then we can really free up our hands and feet to clean up the Chinese!"

Clean up the Chinese!

Almost from the day the first Chinese artillery shell fell on the head of the Third Army in Mukden, Nogi Noshinori had such a desire in his heart, and this desire was suppressed by reality, just like Mukden City, on the one hand, the Chinese army's long-range artillery provided superior fire support for Mukden, and on the other hand, Tokyo repeatedly ordered him not to attack Mukden.

Maybe Tokyo is afraid of a repeat of what happened in Lushun ten years ago! In fact, there is no need for them to be so worried, if they can be able to capture Mukden, is it possible that the Chinese flag is still flying at the head of Mukden City? The Battle of Mukden was not so much a victory as a pyrrhic victory, so bad that the army did not even have the ability to pursue, Nogi Noshinori knew that his Third Army had been reduced by more than half and could not be replenished, almost all the lieutenants from the army non-commissioned officer school were lost, and the junior officers were all reserve officers who had been temporarily called in and had only received rapid training.

This is not the status quo of the entire Manchurian Army, and they can still have time to slap the swollen face and become fat during the negotiations in Nanjing, but here he knows that maybe with only a few charges, the Central [***] can easily tear through the defense line of all the troops of the Third Army and even the entire Manchurian Army.

They can inflict heavy losses on the Yalu River Army, which has suffered the smallest losses, within 30 hours, and they can completely annihilate the Japanese Army within a few days, and even if the Navy wins, it will probably be useless, and even if he is arrogant, he also knows that what the current Army needs is repair, and what it needs is time.

God knows that when the Chinese fired the shells yesterday, Nogi Noshinori's first reaction was not to order the troops to resist, but to order the burning of the military flag, and the shame of the capture of the three wing flags was the shame of the entire Yumoto Army.

Fortunately, fortunately, the Chinese were more restrained than he thought, and they did not attack.

"Damn politicians, end the war quickly!"

Although he knew that if the war ended, he would definitely stand up and criticize those politicians for "shamelessly betraying" the army's victory, but at this time, Nogi Noshinori's only hope was to end the war with the Chinese, even if it was to withdraw from Manchuria, he could not afford to lose, if he lost the last bit of the army's possessions in Manchuria.

If the navy fails again! I'm afraid that there is really only one way to lose the country.

"The navy must win!"

Nogi Noshinori whispered on his lips.

"Your Excellency, can we defeat the Lu Navy?"

Ihara Tengji asked with some concern, he is an army officer, in his opinion, whether the army can win the war is very simple, will plus firepower is equal to victory, but the navy is different, no matter how strong the navy's will to win is, it can't hide the lack of strength, and there are only four warships.

"The Navy says no problem, then it must be no problem, I'm thinking now, after we win the naval battle, what should we get from the Chinese, it doesn't matter what those damn politicians say, the most important thing is that the Chinese must pay for their cooperation with Lu Guo!"

Nogi Noshinori had a hint of resentment in his tone, and although he had a completely different answer in mind, on the surface, he would never show his "weakness".

"I've had enough of this war that is controlled by damn politicians, when, when that country, when someone is slapped in the face, all that comes to mind is to smile, but now we are doing this, what a shame!"

This will be a general who is famous all over the world for the Lushun offensive and defensive war, but he vividly expresses the two sides of his mouth and heart, and his heart is more eager for a truce than anyone else, first, to preserve the last strength of the army, and second, to protect his own reputation, and he believes that no one in the entire Third Army will talk about how the Chinese stopped attacking him, but only how the Third Army resisted the attack of the Chinese army.

But on the surface, he still has to show the attitude that an emperor [***] person should have, especially at this time, blaming everything on those politicians, he knows that the General Staff Headquarters will work with those politicians to resist the pressure of the people and the Chinese armistice, and even the final truce with Lu Guo, but in the end, the General Staff Headquarters will still kick the politicians aside and talk about how their hands and feet are bound by politicians.

"Let's think about the Chinese army on the other side! In the past, I never worried about the Chinese army, but now it's different, not because they are fighting us on the battlefield...... Well, a tie, but because! ”

With that, Nogi glanced at the sunlight that was streaming through the entrance of the bunker.

"A nationalist China is the thing we need to worry about the most, and it seems that now we can't stop their nationalization!"

(To be continued)