At 9 o'clock in the morning of May 24, 1902, the Dingbei Army launched a comprehensive and sudden attack on the Russian army on the border in Russia, and it was the first to start the war in a way that the Russian army had never encountered.

There are 30 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 18 Blue Eagle bombers that carried out air strikes on the Russian military fortifications in Yakutsk City, and the Blue Eagle bombers carried 100 kg bombs today to bomb the Russian army's fortifications on the west bank of the Lena River, because the Russian army does not even have an airship in Yakutsk City, so the Russian army does not have any aircraft that can fight against the aircraft in the sky, and the Yellow Bird fighter that was originally used for air combat hung a 100-kilogram bomb, which also joined the bombing of the Russian army's fortifications on the west bank of the Lena River, After that, the Yellow Sparrow fighter also used its two Type 96 heavy machine guns with a caliber of 7.9 mm to strafe the Russian troops on the ground.

The Yellow Sparrow fighters and Blue Eagle bombers first focused their attacks on the positions of the Russian artillery in the city of Yakutsk, and according to the deployment map of the Russian army obtained by the Military Intelligence Bureau, they accurately found the positions of the Russian artillery in the city of Yakutsk.

After the end of the war three years ago, Tsar Nicholas II began to reorganize the Russian Army according to the establishment of some high-ranking army officers, so that the Russian army was roughly the same as that of Germany, France, and Great Britain.

Russia currently has an army of about 3 million people, and it has abandoned the old establishment of one army and three divisions, each with only about 10,000 people, and has become the largest combat unit with the group army as the largest combat unit, and the establishment of one group army includes four to six armies, as well as cavalry units, engineering troops, and artillery directly under the group army. A corps consists of 2 or 3 divisions, the commander of which usually has the rank of lieutenant general, and an corps includes infantry, cavalry, artillery, and other direct units. An infantry division usually consists of 2 infantry brigades and 1 artillery brigade with 2 or 3 cavalry companies and some other units, with 1 division numbering between 18,000 and 24,000 and the division commander having the rank of major general. Each brigade has 2 to 3 infantry regiments, and the brigade commander has the rank of brigadier general. The infantry regiment consisted of 3 or 4 battalions, and the regiment commander had the rank of colonel. Each battalion has 4 companies, and the battalion commander has the rank of lieutenant colonel. Each company usually has about 100 men, the company commander has the rank of major or captain, and each company has 2 to 3 platoons.

Now there are 10 armies in the Russian Army, and the city of Yakutsk is an important town west of the Lena River in Russia, and the headquarters of the 8th Army of the Russian Army is located here. The 8th Army of the Russian Army has 5 armies and more than 300,000 troops, which are responsible for hundreds of kilometers of fortifications of the Russian army on the west bank of the Nelena River, including the city of Yakutsk, and the city of Yakutsk is the top priority of the defense of the 8th Army, the strength of the two armies is concentrated in the city of Yakutsk, and 1 heavy artillery division directly under the 8th Army is also deployed here.

However, the heavy artillery division directly under the 8th Group Army did not play any role, and was bombed by the Northeast Air Force, and more than 20 Yellow Bird fighters and Blue Eagle bombers surrounded the artillery position of the heavy artillery division until they ran out of bombs and fired at the dilapidated heavy artillery positions for a while, and then swaggered away.

The heavy artillery division directly under the 8th Army, which had 30 152-mm howitzers, 30 122-mm howitzers and 40 127-mm field guns, was completely destroyed by the aircraft of the Northeast Air Force.

The artillery of other military units and the artillery of divisions also suffered heavy losses in the bombing of aircraft of the Northeast Air Force, and some of the anti-aircraft guns of the Russian army, which did not have a high rate of fire, posed little threat to the high-speed flying aircraft, and most of the anti-aircraft guns were directly blown into parts by the plane's bombs without firing a few shots.

In the port of Yakutsk City, the Russian army also has 6 small river gunboats with a displacement of less than 100 tons, which belong to the Russian Lena River Water Patrol and cooperate with the Russian 8th Army to guard the west bank of the Lena River, and they were also sunk by the bombs of the Blue Eagle bombers.

After 30 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 18 Blue Eagle bombers bombed indiscriminately, they retreated to the airfield near the Lena River in Saisi Province, preparing to return to the airfield to load their bombs and return to continue the bombing.

After the planes of the Northeast Air Force completed the first wave of bombardment and left, the artillery units of the Dingbei Army on the east bank of the Lena River began to shell the shore fortifications of the Russian army on the west bank.

The Dingbei Army, which was responsible for attacking the city of Yakutsk, was two divisions of the Seventh Field Army, which was personally commanded by Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the Seventh Field Army.

After more than 20 minutes of artillery shelling by the Dingbei Army, the bombs were reloaded, and the 30 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 18 Blue Eagle bombers, which had been replenished with machine gun ammunition, returned to the top of the Russian troops.

At this time, the troops of the Seventh Field Army of the Dingbei Army, which were preparing to forcibly cross the Lena River, boarded a large number of small transport boats with a displacement of several tens of tons, and rushed to the west bank of the Lena River under the cover of more than a dozen small gunboats of the Northeast Navy's inland river fleet.

These small transport boats with a displacement of several tens of tons are produced by civilian shipyards, and are equipped with diesel generator sets produced by Shenyang Machinery Factory, which can reach a speed of more than 18 knots and can be used as landing craft.

In a section of the trench near the river on the west bank of the Lena River, the Russian soldiers Vitalayevich and Ilyich pressed their bodies tightly in the trench in horror and shrunk their bodies as much as possible, not only to withstand the bombardment of the Dingbei Army artillery on the other side of the river, but also to be bombed and strafed by the Yellow Sparrow fighters and Blue Eagle bombers flying back from the sky in an instant.

After the artillery bombardment of the Dingbei Army on the other side of the river had subsided, Vitalaevich and Ilyich put their heads out of the trenches and looked at the Lena River, where they found that there were already dense boats in the Lena River, which were speeding towards their side from the east bank.

Vitalaevich and Ilyich heard a Russian officer shouting in the distance ordering the soldiers to enter the position, but the two who were already in the trench did not need to go anywhere else, and the two put their rifles on the trench and prepared to shoot at the landing Dingbei army.

Many Russian officers and soldiers ran out of the anti-artillery holes and entered the trenches with weapons, but at this time, the planes in the sky lowered their altitude to strafe the Russian trenches on the shore, and from time to time bombs fell from the sky, blowing up some Russian pillboxes.

Ilyich shuddered and asked Vitalaevich, who was beside him: "God! Those...... What are those flying in the sky? Not only can you throw bombs, but you can also ...... It is also possible to shoot at the ground with a machine gun. ”

Vitalaevich also said with a shocked face: "It may be similar to the airship, but they fly much faster than the airship, you see that our anti-aircraft guns have no effect on them at all, they are too fast, and the anti-aircraft guns can't aim at them at all." ”

At this time, 1 officer of the Russian army walked to the trench not far from Vitalaevich and Ilyich and shouted: "Soldiers, ready to fight!" Beat the Qing Dynasty's Dingbei Army back to the east bank! For the great Russian ......"

Before the Russian officer finished shouting, a bullet that flew from somewhere hit his head, making his words stop abruptly, it was likely to be a bullet fired from a machine gun on a small transport boat of the Dingbei Army, the Russian officer poofed and fell into the trench, making Vitalaevich and Ilyich quickly shrink their heads into the trench in fright.

The small transport boats of the Dingbei Army were already close to the bank of the Lena River without suffering much damage because most of the Russian artillery was blown up by aircraft.

Ilyich said with a somewhat pale face: "What about Vitalaevich?" The Qing Dynasty people are about to rush over, and we don't seem to be able to withstand it at all, we ...... We...... Let's run! ”

Vitalaevich was also flustered, but he still shook his head calmly and said: "Flee back at this time, those officers behind will shoot us to death, well-you follow me for a while, it seems that there is only one way." ”

Countless small transport boats rushed directly to the shore shoals on the west bank of the Lena River, and then the Dingbei officers and soldiers on the small transport boats jumped into the river less than half a meter deep and began to attack the positions of the Russian troops on the shore.

The remnants of the first line of Russian fortifications fled to the rear fortifications, but they were shot by the heavy machine guns of the Russian army in the rear fortifications, and some Russian officers shouted in the fortifications: "This is the fate of deserters, we must hold our positions, and those who have not been ordered to retreat will be treated as deserters." ”

After the officers and soldiers of Dingbei who landed occupied the first fortification of the Russian army on the shore, they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue and continue to attack the fortifications behind, but began to clean several trenches of this fortification on the shore, preparing to use this fortification to guard against the counterattack of the Russian army and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops.

Several soldiers of the Dingbei Army suddenly found that in the trenches, they thought that the corpse of the Russian army that had been shot had moved, and they were about to shoot subconsciously, when they suddenly heard an awkward Chinese sentence, "Zhang-Guang-, head-elephant-"

Then 2 trembling Russian soldiers stood up from a pile of Russian corpses, raising their hands high, it was Vitalayevich and Ilyich, it turned out that Vitalayevich pulled Ilyich to pretend to be dead, ready to walk into the prisoner of war camp of the Dingbei Army again, just now Vitalayevich shouted "Sir, surrender!" ”

This is the Chinese dialect that Vitalaevich learned in the prisoner of war camp a few years ago, but it is a pity that it is not up to standard.

With the continuous landing of the follow-up troops of the Seventh Field Army of the Dingbei Army on the west bank, the attack on the fortifications behind the Russian army was also launched, and because of the air support of the Yellow Sparrow fighters and the Blue Eagle bombers, the offensive of the Seventh Field Army could almost be described as overwhelming, and by the time the sun set on May 24, the Dingbei Army had occupied all the positions of the Russian army outside the city of Yakutsk, and even the city of Yakutsk occupied one-third. R1152