On 28 September, the Second Army's nearly 80,000 troops all arrived at the outskirts of Lushunkou, and the Fourth Army had already received orders to march to the Sino-Korean border.

On September 30, the Chinese army occupied the old Hengshan and other strategic points outside the Lushunkou fortress, and when the Japanese attacked the Russians, they also cleared the strongholds on the periphery of the Lushunkou and gradually advanced to the fortress.

After two days of fighting, the Chinese army captured Phoenix Mountain, and the Chinese army set up its cannons on Phoenix Mountain to look down on the Japanese fortress, and the Japanese soldiers did not dare to come out of the fortress again, and all the Japanese troops at the mouth of Arthur were compressed in the fortress.

Due to the early estimation of the fortification of the fortress at Lushunkou, the Chinese army did not rashly launch an attack, and the fortresses were all built on the mountains, some were built on the mountains, and most of them were directly hollowed out of the mountains, and the fortresses would be in the mountains.

If it is a fortress built on the mountain, such a fortress is easy to fight, as long as the caliber of the self-aiming artillery is large enough, the power is strong enough, and it can be destroyed with one shot, and in fact, the Chinese army also did this, first transferred large-caliber artillery, but the army did not have more than 150 mm caliber artillery, so it had to ask the navy for assistance, and the navy transferred a cruiser from Weihaiwei after receiving the request for help, and used 203 mm caliber naval guns to carry out targeted elimination of those Japanese fortresses built on the mountain.

These forts were added by the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War, and they were all built with reinforced concrete, which was very strong, and ordinary small-caliber artillery could not do anything with it. Only one mark can be left on it, and these forts are built against the hills. Basically, it is halfway up the mountain, and the naval artillery does not have the problem of blind spots in the firing range against such a fortress. When the Japanese built these forts, they did not consider the problem of being attacked by naval guns at all, because the Japanese thought that it was impossible for the Chinese navy to threaten these forts, but they did not expect that after so many years, the situation had changed.

With the army officers reporting the coordinates by radio, the naval guns began to identify the Japanese forts built along the mountains one by one, but the naval guns did not do anything about the forts formed by building forts on the top of the hills and directly hollowing out the mountains.

The most difficult to attack was the 203 Heights, where the Japanese deployed extremely strong defenses, which were divided into three layers of defense: the foot of the mountain, the halfway up the mountain, and the top of the mountain. On the other side, in a relatively open area, the Japanese deployed thousands of mines to prevent the Chinese army from attacking from this side.

In addition, the Japanese army also deployed a large number of forts in the east of Erlong Mountain, Songshu Mountain, Wangtai, East Jiguan Mountain and other places, and deployed more than 70 forts such as Jinjinshan, Dianyan, West Jiguan Mountain and other fortresses near the seaside to enclose the entire fortress. The back and flanks would be bombarded by these batteries.

The Fourth Army was responsible for attacking Heights 203 from the west to the east, and the Fifth Army was responsible for attacking from the east to the west. The Japanese fort at East Cockscomb Mountain had to be resolved in order to advance, while the Sixth Army from the north attacked south, and the Erlongshan fort and the Pine Hill fort had to be resolved.

There are also two forts between 203 Heights and Pine Hill. The two forts were stuck between Pine Hill and Heights 203, which completely blocked the attacker's route of advance. If you want to pass through the middle, you will inevitably be blocked. After being blocked, the batteries on both sides will definitely hit the overwhelming shells, which is a fire blow that no attacker can withstand, so if you want to enter the Port of Arthur, you must first deal with these hilltop batteries, but how easy is it to take these batteries?

Although the equipment of the Chinese army can be regarded as extremely sophisticated in this era, and although the military quality of the Chinese army has been at the forefront of this world, it is not easy to get those fortresses.

After two days of attacking, the three attacking sides did not have any results, but the losses were not large, the fortresses in all directions were also destroyed by the Chinese army Some batteries, and the Japanese side also lost a lot of shells, which was even worse for the Japanese army, which was already overstretched with shells, if there were no shells, these fortresses would have lost their effect, and only a few machine guns with rifles could not stop the Chinese attack.

On September 2, the Chinese army did not attack on this day, and the Japanese army spent the morning in a tense state, and found that the Chinese army did not attack and knew that it would not attack in the afternoon, so the Japanese troops in the forts also rarely rested.

The reason why the Chinese army did not attack was because President Xiao Zhenlei personally came to the front line today to inspect the news, and only a few high-ranking generals knew about this news, Xiao Zhenlei came by transport plane, and an airstrip had been built in Jinzhou for transport planes to land.

On the one hand, he wanted to know about the battle situation on the front line, and on the other hand, it was also to cheer up the army, so that the soldiers and lowly officers knew that they were fighting on the front line, and the state did not use them as tools, nor did it not pay attention to them.

In the morning, on the offensive position, the soldiers rested against the chest and back walls in the trenches, some joked and joked, some talked about their hometown, and some talked about the girl they liked.

The soldiers of the Fifth Division came from Tiannan and Haibei, and since there were people from Guangdong Province, there were also people from the northwest, people from the northeast, and people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, these people from different regions formed this army, and they had various accents and dialects when chatting.

"That, Xiao Guangdong, I heard that your mother-in-law is dark and thin, is it true? You people from Guangdong Province, it's so pitiful, you face a dark and thin mother-in-law all day long, tsk ??????."

The soldier named Ma Face next to him smiled: "Brother Bao, how do you know that the girl in Guangdong Province is black and thin?" You haven't slept again! ”

Xiao Guangdong's face turned red and refuted: "Fart, the beauties in our Guangdong Province are very beautiful, how can it be like you women in Sichuan Province who beat men one by one, this is okay?" It's all you men in Sichuan Province who are too sloppy and lose the face of our men, and you have set a bad example for all men in the world! ”

The soldier named Brother Bao took a puff of his cigarette and said, "You know a hammer? You're a ha'er, this is not called a nest, this is called a painful mother-in-law, do you know? ”

Brother Bao is the squad leader of this squad, he is a native of Sichuan Province, and he still has a set of leading soldiers, although he usually fights with the soldiers, but he is absolutely unambiguous in the battle, he is a soldier with very rich combat experience, he has participated in the Baolu Movement, the War of Independence, the Northern Expedition, and has made a lot of contributions, according to his merits, he can be promoted to company commander, but I don't know what this guy thinks, he just doesn't want to be an official.

Brother Bao teased another soldier in the class, "Hey, Nine-headed Bird, have you ever had that with your child daughter-in-law?" ”

The nine-headed bird naturally refers to the Hubei Yankees, and there is a saying called 'the nine-headed bird in the sky, the Hubei Yankees on the ground', which means that the Hubei people are too smart and cunning, and they have many eyes, and they will come to trouble, unlike the people of Shandong, Hebei, and Henan.

The nine-headed bird rolled his eyes: "Nonsense, I must have done it, how can my wife be idle there?" ”

"I'll rub!" Brother Bao sat up and shouted: "You melon baby, you two are doing that before you get married, you are not afraid of dipping in the pig cage?" ”

The nine-headed bird yawned: "God knows, I know she knows, as long as the two of us don't say it, how can anyone else know?" Brother Bao, you worry too much, you see how many gray hairs you have! ”

"Ah, you turtle son drop, do you see the drop? Lao Tzu is only twenty-one years old this year, and he has gray hair? Brother Bao was frightened.

At this time, the platoon commander Hu Dazhi strode over and shouted: "Get up, get up for me, don't lie down!" ”

Brother Bao said lazily: "Row seats, which one are you singing, the brothers finally rested, you can't see it anymore and come to drive us, you want the brothers to die!" ”

Hu Dazhi scolded: "I'll rub, Lao Tzu wants you to die?" Every time there is a benefit from above, when did Lao Tzu not think about you first? Don't talk nonsense, get up and stand upright, there are big people up above, don't talk nonsense to Lao Tzu later, do you hear thunder? ”

Brother Bao pointed at Hu Dazhi and smiled: "Row seats, you fucking want to cover the lid again?" ”

"Fart, Lao Tzu sits upright, what kind of lid do you cover, Lao Tzu is afraid that you mud will be unstoppable, and it will anger the big people above, and when something happens, Lao Tzu will not be able to save you!"

At this moment, a loud shout came from not far away: "The President has arrived, the Chief of the General Staff has arrived, the commander has arrived, and everyone has stood upright and saluted."

It was two kilometers from the Japanese fortress, and the people who reported the number did not worry about being heard by the Japanese, and the trenches were dug very deep, two meters deep, and almost all people standing in the trenches could not see the situation outside, and the situation inside the trenches could not be seen from the outside, and only the observation posts could see the outside.

Brother Bao and the others were all stupid when they heard this voice, and they stood upright, the soldiers never thought that the high-flying and untouchable president would come to this extremely dangerous place today, this is the front line, standing on the battle mound, you can also see the shadow of the Japanese walking on the top of the opposite hill, sometimes a cannonball can kill several people when it flies over.

Xiao Zhenlei was wearing an ordinary combat uniform, wearing a steel helmet, stepping on military boots, wearing an armed belt around his waist, and not wearing a military rank on his shoulders.

Xiao Zhenlei heard the officer's report just now, and saw that all the officers and soldiers were saluting, so he hurriedly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't salute, as soon as you salute, the Japanese on the mountain will know that a big man is coming when they see it, and if the Japanese cannonball hit, I will be reimbursed here, haha!" ”

The officers and soldiers all laughed when they heard this, but they also lowered their saluting arms, feeling that Xiao Zhenlei was not terrible at all, and he was very friendly, and he felt like he was the eldest brother of his own family. (To be continued......)