Chapter 45: The Burning Vladivostok (I)
Although the unprepared Russian army was at a disadvantage, it successfully bought time for the soldiers behind it with the military defense facilities that had been built before.
The rumbling sound continued to sound, and I saw that the camp of the Tsarist Russian army also drew a line of fire and shot towards the opposite "Huaxia army", and these shells dragged their long tails through the night like a meteorite hitting the earth.
The Russian artillery fired back, but the accuracy in the hurry was outrageously low, and it was even more inaccurate in the dark of night, and they were basically missed or directly over-the-top, and few of them could hit the enemy.
The Japanese army disguised as the Chinese army was very fierce, and the so-called bushido spirit was like a dead soldier to block the muzzle of the gun, at this time the Japanese cohesion was very afraid, and there were many people at the bottom who were loyal to the emperor, and the emperor was their god.
The Japanese army's Su zhì was not covered, and under the frantic fire of the heavy machine guns in the trenches of Tsarist Russia, they all lay on the ground while crawling forward while knocking out the machine gunners in the night, and soon the first line of defense of Tsarist Russia was breached. The Tsarist Russian army that was broken through the first line of trenches could only shrink to the second line of trenches, fortunately they had made a few lines of defense before, or their lieutenant general Schöne was afraid that Zhang Zuolin in the northeast would attack, so they made a few lines of defense, otherwise they all focused on the defense line in the north.
Lieutenant General Schöne didn't know how the Chinese army attacked from the south through the northeast, and at first he thought that his subordinates had made a mistake, but after hearing the sprint slogans in those Chinese languages, he had to admit it.
He had to consider whether there was any collusion between the Japanese and the Chinese Empire, you must know that the south of Vladivostok is Korea, and if you want to attack from the south, you must get the consent of the Japanese, and he has not received the news that the Chinese army has passed through the northeast. If it is a navy, it will also have to go through Japan's consent, and the Sea of Japan is now the domain of the Japanese, and the Japanese navy will not let the Chinese navy enter the Sea of Japan lightly.
According to his speculation, there is no doubt that what agreement China and Japan have reached, no matter what it is, it is not good for the empire and himself, Vladivostok is not an opponent of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese Empire, just look at the defeat in the Outer Mongolia Empire. Waiting for reinforcements to arrive is, and now where will reinforcements come to support them, they can only bite the bullet.
Tsar Nicholas II was very angry after seeing that so many troops had surrendered without a big battle, and ordered that whoever surrendered would directly become a traitor to the empire, and would not be redeemed or asked, and the people in the officers' families would be severely punished, and even exterminated.
Lieutenant General Schöne would not surrender even if he died in battle, he still had to think about his family, and it was a mistake to take the initiative to come to the Far East, and he regretted it because he was afraid of death.
No matter what Lieutenant General Schöne thinks, the gears of war have already turned, the "Huaxia army" is violently attacking them, they have no way out, and they cannot escape from the north-south attack.
The Japanese troops who occupied the first line of trenches were very excited, and as long as they broke through one more, they could march down to Vladivostok, and one by one they rushed forward as if they had been beaten with blood.
"Boom! Bang! Bang! The Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were directly blown to pieces, and then several more soldiers were killed and injured, it turned out to be mines!
The explosion of the mines only slowed down the attack of the Japanese soldiers, and then one after another the soldiers shouted: "For the Empire!" Long live the Empire! "Rushing into the minefield while shooting with a gun.
The sound of explosions continued to sound, red flowers bloomed bewitchingly, bunches of sparks were as brilliant as fireworks, and the dead Japanese soldiers were smiling.
"Damn, is that the Chinese army, how can it be more terrible than the Japanese soldiers, one by one desperately breaking into the minefield, is the life of the Chinese soldiers so "cheap"? ”
"Is Huaxia trying to reduce their population? We don't take the lives of our soldiers seriously, how can we defeat such an army? ”
"Shut it all up! Cheer them all together and beat them down for me! After hearing what the soldiers said, the nearby officer directly scolded.
The Japanese soldiers rushed to the minefield like a tide, and the successive explosions did not frighten them, and they forcibly filled in several passages with the lives of the soldiers, although the safe passages were filled, but because it was dark night, a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed without stepping on the safe passages.
In order to desperately block the attack of the "Huaxia army", Lieutenant General Schönn transferred one-third of the heavy machine guns for the key defense in the north to block the enemy in the south, and also transferred a large number of artillery to the south, and the defense in the south was too rudimentary.
The second and final line of trenches was the focus of both sides' attack and defense, boxes of grenades were carried from Vladivostok to the trenches, and heavy machine guns began to be erected in a dense manner.
"Da !!"
Dense tongues of fire erupted in the Russian trenches, and the sound of bullets hitting people and land was heard in a frenzy of bullets shooting at the attacking Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers fell one by one, and one made up for it, vowing not to give up until they took the trenches, and some soldiers continued to shoot at the machine gunners with their guns after being wounded on the ground.
"Boom! Rumble! ”
The Japanese army immediately set up its own artillery after occupying the first trench, and the close-range artillery bombardment coupled with those obvious targets with tongues of fire made the accuracy of the shells very high.
Seeing that the "Chinese artillery" bombarded their machine guns, the Russian artillery finally found the target, and both sides were at close range, not only the artillery on the position began to exert its might, but even the artillery on the wall of Vladivostok began to help.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The Japanese artillery positions that were still shelling the Russian machine gunners were quickly retaliated against by the Tsarist Russia, and one shell after another fell on them, and the explosion louder than the shell explosion was shocking, and the nearby Japanese artillery was directly blown into pieces.
"Oh no, Your Excellency Dazuo, a shell in the trench logistics was blown up, a large number of shells were detonated, and the shells in the trenches are not enough, request for support!"
"Bastard, what's the matter with the artillery in the back, they didn't even help attract fire, hurry up and separate the shells in the trenches, and immediately let the artillery be diverted."
There were not many Japanese cannons erected in the trenches, and under the massive shelling of Tsarist Russia, it can be said that the losses were heavy, and the range of the two sides was too close, and the artillery of Tsarist Russia was even counted on the city wall, and the power was not ordinarily great.
The Japanese artillery in the rear was actually just doing the action of advancing forward, there was time to help the artillery in the trenches in front, and now they quickly stopped to attract fire after seeing that the artillery on the walls of Tsarist Russia was also firing.
The dense machine guns of the Tsarist Russia became sparse after a little mute, and the pressure of the advancing Japanese soldiers dropped sharply, and they continued to rush forward bravely, and finally took a big step forward after falling a lot of people, and they were getting closer and closer to the trenches of the Tsarist Russia.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The Japanese navy, which had just arrived, also began to exert its might, and one after another shells went directly at the cannons on the wall of Vladivostok, and Lieutenant General Schöne, who was observing the battle situation on the city wall, quickly pressed down on the city wall, and a cannonball roared into the city from above, and with a bang blew up a residential building below.
"Oh God, they actually fired cannonballs into the city, the army of the Huaxia Empire is crazy, don't they know that it is all civilians?" A soldier lying on top of Lieutenant General Schoen stood up and said in disbelief.
Lieutenant General Schoen quickly stood up and looked at the residential houses that had just been hit, and then looked at the sea, and suddenly his whole body was covered in cold sweat, because he saw that the battleships were frantically spraying shells at Vladivostok.
"Damn, whose battleship the hell, the Japanese? Chinese people? Hurry up and get in touch with the people at the port to see who it is? Lieutenant General Schoen roared at his subordinates.
Vice Admiral Schöne was in a very bad mood at the moment, since the Japanese or Chinese warships had opened fire on him, it meant that the other side was the enemy, and there were both the "Chinese army" attacking and the navy's warships shelling, and it was really unfavorable to them.
"Report, the troops in the port said that they were warships of the Chinese Empire, all of them were the flag of the Chinese Empire and the naval flag, and some of the warships were preparing to land." A soldier quickly ran up to Lieutenant General Schoon, who was thinking, and said.
Damn, it turned out to be a warship of the Chinese Empire, it seems that Japan has indeed reached some agreement with the Chinese Empire, and this important news must be reported to the Empire, Lieutenant General Schöne thought.
In order to avoid being bombarded, Lieutenant General Schöne went down the city wall and moved to a safe place under the persuasion of his subordinates, and he also happened to report to the empire what he saw, but unfortunately he just couldn't imagine that it was not the army of the Huaxia Empire that was attacking now.
A large number of Jilin soldiers were sent to the Jilin border to defend, and the Russian soldiers who originally defended Zhang Zuolin also hurried to Vladivostok.
Zhang Zuolin also boldly sent people to try to see what was going on, because the news sent back by his intelligence officer in Vladivostok was that the Chinese army was attacking Vladivostok, but he knew that the Chinese army was still in the area of the Ussuri River, and things were different.
He suspected that the Japanese were disguised as Chinese troops to attack Vladivostok, but he was not sure, so he had to let people watch and confirm it.
The last line of defense of the trenches of Tsarist Russia was crumbling, and the Japanese attack was so fierce that it was simply the result of the soldiers' lives.
With the help of the battleships, the pressure on the Japanese army was much reduced, and the speed of the advance was much faster, and many soldiers had already entered the last trenches of Tsarist Russia, carrying samurai swords and fighting with Tsarist Russian soldiers, and some were fighting with Tsarist Russian soldiers with bayonets. It has to be said that the strength of the short Japanese soldiers fighting bayonets was much better than the Tsarist soldiers who were a head above them, and the pampered Russian soldiers fell one after another.