Not to mention the large amount of ordnance, ammunition and other war materials that Zhao Dongyun provided to the Russians, in addition to the heavy machine guns, bullets and shells that have not been stopped, there are also important strategic materials such as barbed wire and cement......

Although there are no large-scale steel plants in many factories under the Fuyuan system in Zhao Dongyun's hands, only a small-scale steelmaking plant under the Fuyuanji Qì Factory is just a small-scale steelmaking plant, and the large-scale steel plant that the Fuyuanji Qì Factory was preparing for financing at the beginning of the year has not even shipped equipment back to China!

But this does not mean that Zhao Dongyun can't make barbed wire, he doesn't have much steel and other raw materials, and it is not a big problem to directly import or buy from Hanyang Iron and Steel Plant.

Don't look at the Fuyuan Machinery Factory on the surface is just an arsenal, but in fact, the large arsenals in these years are all in the manufacturing, chemical, coal, steel, timber and many other sectors, basically a large arsenal can contain most of the contemporary industrial system. There are more than a dozen branch factories under the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, such as chemical factories that make sulfuric acid and other compounds, and synthesize smokeless gunpowder and black powder, such as steel and iron mills, bullet factories that produce bullets, and shell lengths that produce shells, as well as production, in addition to gun factories that produce machine guns and rifles, gun factories that produce artillery shells and develop barreled artillery, lumber factories that specialize in the production of handguards, butts and grenade handles, and then there are tanneries that produce bullet bags, gun belts and even military shoes, and then there are also bayonets, swords, command knives and other cold weapons knife factory.

Basically, as you can think of in the military industry, there will be internal departments on the Fuyuan Machinery Qì factory, large or small, to produce these things.

Even the Fuyuan Machinery Factory also engaged in some side businesses, such as in order to provide production equipment and maintenance equipment for other subsidiaries of the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, it also set up a machine manufacturing factory, imitating foreign spinning machines, looms, and even producing some industrial machine tools.

Therefore, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory cannot be regarded simply as an arsenal that can only make guns and cannons, just like the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau can not only produce Type 88 rifles, but also produce naval warships and long-barreled heavy artillery.

Therefore, for the Fuyuan Machinery Factory, there is no problem of technology and output in the production of barbed wire, the key is that the raw materials are purchased, and the production cost of the guide is relatively high, anyway, Zhao Dongyun himself is reluctant to use too much on the Jinzhou defense line, and basically reserves a batch to be used again in wartime.

But the Russians don't care about the so-called cost, there are as many shells as there are 501 shells, and there are naturally as many barbed wire fences as there are.

There is also cement, although this thing is also a relatively novel thing, but in recent years China has also emerged a lot of cement factories, of course, at this time is not called cement factory, it is generally called "ash factory" and some people will also call it "fine cotton soil factory", for example, in 1889 Tangshan already had "Tangshan fine cotton soil factory".

As the most dynamic in northern China after the Gengzi year, attracting countless capital to try to buy shares of the Fuyuan Yarn Factory, after investing in a series of subsidiaries such as the Fuyuan Machinery Factory and the Fuyuan Weaving Factory, it was also invested in Tangshan in 1903 to build the Fuyuan Ash Factory, which belonged to the Fuyuan Yarn Factory in the early stage, and later dispersed the shares in order to expand the scale and attract funds like other subsidiaries, but the Fuyuan Yarn Factory still occupied more than 80% of the shares.

In addition to Zhao Dongyun's Fuyuan ash factory, there are several other ash factories in Zhili and North China, from which Zhao Dongyun scavenged a lot of cement and transported it to Jinzhou by rail, except for some of it for his own use to build the Jinzhou defense line, and more of it was sold to the Russians.

After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Zhao Dongyun sold a lot of supplies to the Russians, especially in the early months of February, March, and April, not only with ordnance, but also with cement, barbed wire, and even grain. Most of these materials sold in the early stage were transported to Lushun to strengthen the Lushun Fortress, making the completion of the Lushun Fortress a little higher than in history.

For example, the 203 Heights, historically, the fortifications in this place were not completed at all due to the time when the Japanese attacked, and now although they still have not been able to repair all the fortifications, they are also seventy-seven eighty-eight, plus Zhao Dongyun's mention, the Russians also discovered the importance of this 203 Heights, and in the early stage of the war, they were stationed with heavy troops for defense.

Zhao Dongyun believes that if he wants to conquer Lushun, it is estimated that more people will die than in history!

Moreover, Zhao Dongyun's intervention also caused a deviation in the historical trajectory, and the Japanese army failed to take the forward positions in Lushun on August 15, and without taking these forward positions, it was impossible to launch an attack on the Lushun fortress itself, let alone conquer the 203 heights or directly shell the Russian fleet in the port of Lushun.

Therefore, in history, the Russian Navy's breakthrough operation around August 10 did not happen as scheduled!

The reason why the Russian Navy in Port Arthur broke through in August in history was because after the Japanese occupied Dagushan and several other forward positions, they set up an artillery command post to direct long-range heavy artillery to launch an artillery bombardment of the Russian fleet in Port Arthur, so that the Russian Navy was forced to leave the port and try to break through in the direction of Vladivostok.

However, now that the Japanese army has not even captured Dagu Mountain, it is naturally impossible to talk about threatening the Russian fleet in the port.

Once there is a deviation in history, then it will lead to a series of deviations, and the Japanese army failed to capture the forward positions such as Dagushan in time, which means that the Russian army's defensive tactics in Dagushan have been extremely successful, so that Konstantin 61 Smirnov, the main battle general in charge of the defense of the place, has the support of most of the defending generals in Arthur.

At this time, Lushun revealed that the commander-in-chief of the Russian Kwantung Army concealed the telegram, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian Kwantung Army, Anatoly 61 Stexel, was dismissed from his post by the supreme commander of the Russian Far East, Kulopatkin, due to the defeat in many battles such as Jinzhou and Dalian, and appointed Smirnov as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, but Anatoly 61 Stexel concealed the telegram, and the latter did not know anything about the appointment, but when he won a great victory in the defense of Dagushan, Kurobekin once again sent a telegram to the Lushun front, but at this time, Stessel, who had repeatedly advocated surrender, had no chance to continue to conceal the telegram, and the concealment of the telegram before was revealed.

Anatoly 61 Stexel was immediately ousted from power by his former subordinates and placed under house arrest, while Konstantin 61 Smirnov was appointed commander of the Russian Kwantung Army.

This person is a staunch main battle faction, and did not adopt a passive defense and shrinking strategy like the previous Stexel, but adopted an active defense, in addition to not retreating in Dagushan and Xiaogushan, but also launched a counterattack to recapture the forward position of 203 Heights.

These changes are one after another, and this is not the result of Zhao Dongyun's direct promotion, in fact, Zhao Dongyun doesn't know what the details of the Lushun offensive and defensive battles in history are, and he doesn't understand which person is better to preside over the defense of Lushun. All he did was to remind the Russians of the importance of Heights 203 and provide Russia with some supplies of machine guns and ammunition and other combat materials.

He himself does not have the ability to directly affect the appointment of high-ranking generals of the Russian army, but many things have a butterfly effect, and he sold so many machine guns and other combat materials to the Russians, which naturally affected the results of the Russian army to some extent, and these victories and defeats that are different from history naturally affected some personnel appointments of the Russian army.

So with Zhao Dongyun here, don't think about this Russo-Japanese War being the same as history!

It was not only the Battle of Lushun that changed, but also the Battle of Liaoyang, which was very different, with the extensive use of machine guns, trenches and barbed wire, and the only time the Japanese army launched a large-scale offensive in the past month, with the result that more than half of a division was killed or wounded in one day......

As a result, there was a stalemate in the battle of Liaoyang, and the Japanese side urged the Third Army to take Lushun as soon as possible, and then reinforce the Liaoyang front!

However, in the past few months, not only the Russian army has recognized the important role of heavy machine guns, but also the Japanese army has recognized the important role of heavy machine guns!

The Japanese side even urgently ordered heavy machine guns from France, Britain and even Germany, and the Russian side also looted many heavy machine guns from Europe, especially from Germany and France, and shipped them from Europe to the Far East.

"According to the report of our military attache watching the battle, now the Russian army has built a relatively complete trench defense system after several months of operation in Liaoyang, and from the perspective of their trench defense system, it should be a reference to our Jinzhou defense system!" Chen Guangyuan pointed to the layout map of the Japanese and Russian armies in Liaoyang on the table and continued: "If you look at the location of their machine gun fortresses, they can completely form cross-machine gun firepower!" ”

Meng Enyuan, who was on the side, also said: "The Japanese army is also digging trenches now, and the layout is similar to that of the Russian side!" ”

As he spoke, he smiled bitterly and said, "It's only been a few years, why do you use machine guns and trenches!" ”

Meng Enyuan's words reveal a strong unwillingness, although this machine gun is a large-scale application of foreigners, but the first to propose machine guns and even large-scale application of machine gun tactics and trench tactics and tactics is the Beiyang Army, the Beiyang Army in 1901 by Zhao Dongyun influence, so far has developed a complete set of machine guns, trenches, barbed wire combined with defensive tactics.

Even before the Russo-Japanese War, only the Beiyang family knew this tactic, and the others used heavy machine guns as artillery battalions and trenches as breastwork, and there was no systematic trench tactics at all.

However, after the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Zhao Dongyun not only sold machine guns to the Russians, but even taught them to dig trenches and arrange machine guns, and then waited for the machine guns to play a heavy role in the early stage of the Battle of Liaoyang, and after a division of the Japanese army was disabled in one day, the heavy machine guns became the core of the Russian army's defensive tactics almost overnight.

The result was obvious: after a few months, the Russians in the Liaoyang theater dug trenches with a total length of hundreds of kilometers, arranged nearly 300 heavy machine guns, and covered the trenches with barbed wire.

And the Japanese army on the opposite side is not bad at learning, it is they who suffer from machine guns in front, so they also have the same example, among them, when the cavalry of Akiyama Yoshigu and the Russian cavalry fought, they did not play close combat on horses but played machine guns, and as a result, the Russian cavalry was defeated.

As a result, the Japanese army on the Liaoyang front also began to learn from the Russian army to dig trenches and urgently purchase heavy machine guns from foreign countries......

When the machine gun became a pivotal weapon, and even could determine the victory or defeat of this war, the Russian army also sent Andrei again, Andrei was the same as before, still looked like an old gentleman, but he was not polite after seeing Zhao Dongyun, and the first sentence he said was: "We hope to buy more machine guns from the general!" ”