In order to defend the Lushun Fortress, the Japanese army specially selected the elite from each division and organized the Lushun Fortress Garrison Army, which was commanded by the army general Oyama Yan, who was a veteran of the Japanese Army, and in 1885 he served as the Minister of the Japanese Army, that is, the land minister, during the Sino-Japanese War, he commanded the Japanese Second Army to land in Jinzhou and Dalian, and besieged Lushun.

After conquering Lushun, Dashanyan connived at his subordinates to loot Lushun, and the Lushun Massacre that shocked the world occurred.

There are a total of 30,000 troops stationed in the Japanese Lushun Fortress, and the food hoarded in the fortress is enough for 30,000 people to eat for five years, so much food, Japan only hoarded a small part, most of which was hoarded by the Qing army back then, and the Qing army left all this grain to the Japanese after abandoning the Lushun Fortress, and no one thought of burning these grains.

It is worth mentioning that the Japanese hoarded a large number of soybeans in the Lushun fortress, the reason why the Japanese want to hoard soybeans, is also a unique consideration, the fortress defense operations, often hold on for a long time, months, or even years, in this case, vegetables will become extremely scarce, because vegetables are easy to rot, difficult to preserve for a long time, and the human body can not lack vegetables, lack of vegetables, will make the human body extremely lack of vitamins, leading to the occurrence of sepsis, serious can lead to death.

This point has a lesson in the history of world wars, Lin Fei's era of the Japanese siege of Arthur Fortress, to the end, the Russian army that was besieged for nearly a year lacked vitamins, non-combat attrition was extremely serious, and finally had to surrender to Japan, and the first thing after surrendering was to ask the Japanese for vegetables and fruits to eat.

When Japan opened the granary of the Russians, they smiled at that time, because it was full of soybeans, and if those Russian officers could have one, with the wisdom of the Chinese peasants, and turn soybeans into bean sprouts, there would be no shortage of vegetables.

Japanese culture was inspired by China, and even more so in agricultural culture, and of course they knew how to sprout from soybeans, so they hoarded a lot of soybeans.

The Japanese army stockpiled food and carefully strengthened the fortifications, and the Japanese army made ingenious improvements to the fortifications, and named these fortifications "Wall of Sighs", which means that whoever comes to these fortifications can only sigh.

This kind of fortification of the Japanese army is composed of three layers of different heights, the last layer, that is, the third layer, the highest, 15 meters above the ground, on which an artillery is deployed every 300 meters, part of the artillery is the Japanese army's own, more is the Qing country, this layer of fortifications is mainly responsible for long-distance killing and wounding of the enemy, because the artillery is laid at a height of 15 meters above the ground, so the killing distance is as high as more than 3,000 meters, as long as the enemy enters the distance close to the fortifications of 3,000 meters, it will be hit hard by the artillery.

The second layer of fortifications is located below the last layer of fortifications, about seven meters above the ground, this layer is mainly defended by infantry, equipped with Makqin heavy machine guns, and the killing distance is up to more than 1,000 meters.

The last layer of defense and the second layer of defense can kill and injure the enemy army from 3,000 meters away, which basically cuts off the possibility of enemy infantry seizing the fortress, it takes thirteen minutes for a well-trained soldier to run a distance of 3,000 meters, and it takes four minutes to run a distance of 1,000 meters, and this kind of running is running with all his strength, leaving no physical strength for the follow-up battle, absolutely no one on the battlefield runs like this, so it takes longer on the real battlefield.

In such a long time, how many enemy troops have been killed, not to mention that a large number of barbed wire and antlers were laid in the open space in front of the Japanese fortifications, making it more difficult for the infantry to charge.

These two fortifications are enough to make people "sigh", the Japanese army is not enough, and the first fortification has been prepared, and this first fortification is even more fierce!

The first line of fortifications is a trench 30 meters wide and 10 meters deep, the enemy infantry rushes over, can only enter the trench first, and then charge behind, the trench is very common on the battlefield, but the Japanese trench is different from others, others at most under the trench to lay mines, bamboo sticks, while the Japanese army under the trench, laid a fortress.

Under the trench, a fort was laid every 100 meters, and the fort had an upward firing port, and if the enemy soldiers dared to come down from above, they would be killed and wounded by the fire of the fortress.

These three fortifications are extremely strong, Japan has been operating since the capture of Arthur in 1895, and it has been more than five years now, and finally this "wall of sighs" has been built, when it was built, a large number of Qing people were forcibly conscripted, and the Qing people were forced to work for them with bayonets and leather whips, and more than 5,000 Qing people died, and the corpses were fed to dogs by the Japanese army, although Lin Fei knew about this matter, he did not attach importance to it, and did not interfere, which also became an important excuse for the opposition to attack Lin Fei in the future.

When the Russian army faced this fortification, it did not dare to take a step closer, not even a tentative attack.

Lin Fei knows the difficulty of conquering the Lushun Fortress, he mobilized 60,000 troops from Shandong to besiege the Lushun Fortress, these troops are recruited from the Qing State, Lin Fei after occupying all parts of the Qing State, he recruited soldiers locally, formed parts, these troops were sent by the Huaxia Army as officers, and the Qing people were soldiers, and the number of the troops began with the province where the troops were located, followed by the "division" and other preparations, for example, the troops in Shandong were numbered with the "Shandong First Division" and "Shandong Second Division", and the 60,000 people were organized into three divisions.

These recruits were mainly responsible for besieging the Arthur Fortress, cutting off the connection between the Arthur Fortress and other parts of the Japanese army, and the real fortress attack force, Lin Fei decided to hand over to the permanent main division.

Most of the permanent main divisions of the Chinese Empire were in the Qing Kingdom, so Lin Fei sent the main divisions stationed on Sumatra, the 13th Division and the 14th Division, with a total of 30,000 people.

Since then, Lin Fei has gathered almost 90,000 troops in the Lushun Fortress, and Lin Fei organized this part of the troops into the Lushun Front Army, with Li Mingming as the commander-in-chief.

On January 5, 1901, Li Ming ordered the 1st Shandong Division, the 2nd Shandong Division and the 3rd Shandong Division to launch an attack on the Japanese strongholds on the left and right flanks of the Lushun Fortress.

Li Ming then ordered the 13th and 14th Divisions to launch a storming operation, trying to conquer the Arthur Fortress in one fell swoop, but the troops of the two divisions did not dare to attack the Arthur Fortress after sending scouts to reconnoitre, for the simple reason that in the face of Japanese artillery and machine guns, the infantry charge was completely a live target.

Li Ming also knew that the infantry could not be allowed to charge with the tactics of crowds, so Li Ming decided to call in armored trucks to assist the troops in attacking the fortifications.

Li Ming transferred 30 armored trucks from Beijing to support two divisions, and Li Ming also considered that the armored trucks were not enough to withstand the enemy's heavy artillery, so he decided to call in the Great Emperor-class cruisers at sea to blow up the enemy's heavy artillery.

However, the Emperor-class cruiser said that the location of the Arthur Fortress was beyond the range of the Emperor-class cruiser's main guns, so it could not be supported, although the Arthur Fortress was not far from the sea, but the depth of the sea was too shallow for the Emperor-class cruiser to pass.

Since the navy can't support it, it depends on air power, Li Ming sent a message to Lin Fei, asking Lin Fei to coordinate the Monkey King airship to bomb the Lushun Fortress, Lin Fei immediately issued an order to the Monkey King airship troops to suspend the bombing of the Japanese mainland and concentrate on bombing the Lushun Fortress.

After all preparations were completed, on January 10, the first round of attacks on the Lushun Fortress officially began, the Monkey King airship first bombed the Lushun Fortress, and the sixteen Monkey King airships were divided into four formations to bomb the Lushun Fortress in turn.

Aerial bombs fell on the fortress of Arthur, and what Li Ming hoped most for the Monkey King airship to blow up was the heavy coastal defense artillery on the third line of defense, which posed a great threat to the army units, especially the armored trucks.

It is a pity that the bombing of the Monkey King airship did not blow up the coastal defense heavy artillery at all, the reason is very simple, it is too difficult to bomb the coastal defense heavy artillery from the sky, and the area of a coastal defense heavy artillery is only about 100 square meters, and it is almost impossible to drop an aerial bomb at an altitude of several thousand meters to the designated place of 100 square meters, that is, within a square of ten meters long and ten meters wide.

Moreover, the Japanese army also camouflaged the heavy artillery, they set up a shed above the heavy artillery, and the shed was covered with snow-white tarpaulin, which blended in with the surrounding snow, and it was difficult to distinguish these heavy artillery from the sky, and the shells and personnel were located underneath, which increased the difficulty of the attack.

The four waves of attacks of the Monkey King airship ended, and the coastal defense artillery of the Lushun fortress was unharmed, since the coastal defense artillery was not destroyed, the Huaxia army did not dare to attack rashly, and the first round of attacks on the Lushun fortress ended in this way.

Li understood that he was very helpless, and reorganized the available weapons in his hand, the Monkey King airship is not good, the accuracy of the aerial bomb is too poor, and it can't blow up the Japanese heavy artillery at all, what about the artillery, the 13th and 14th divisions are equipped with a total of 60 HP-2 75mm howitzers and 30 HP-3 105mm howitzers, is it okay to use them?

The artillery units of the two divisions took the initiative to ask for battle, but Li Ming did not dare to use them, the Japanese coastal defense heavy artillery had a longer firing range than theirs, and it was on the commanding heights, and the artillery of the Huaxia Army had no advantage, and if it really launched a confrontation, the Huaxia artillery would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Li understood that he had no choice but to ask Lin Fei for instructions and mobilize the armored troops!