The Russo-Japanese War broke out from February to June, although Zhao Dongyun did not know what the original historical trajectory was, but in fact the war has been following the historical trajectory so far, in late June, the Japanese army set up the 'Manchurian Army General Headquarters' to command the armies advancing to the northeast.

At the same time, in order to conquer Lushun, the third army was specially organized, and its commander was the famous Nogi Noshinori, who conquered Lushun during the First Sino-Japanese War, and it was very smooth at that time, and it only took a few days before and after, and most of the time was used on the road, and the Qing army was defeated at the beginning of the actual battle.

This time, Oyama Iwa appointed Nogi Noshinori as the commander of the Third Army, which was also a precedent of trying to repeat the capture of Lushun during the First Sino-Japanese War.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Third Army conquered Lushun, the other three armies of the Japanese army, namely the First Army, the Second Army, and the Fourth Army, which had just landed, all went north to the Liaoyang area, on the one hand, trying to intercept the Russian army from going south to rescue Lushun, and on the other hand, trying to continue the northward offensive and reach Mukden.

Under such a big back, the two sides successively gathered heavy troops in the Liaoyang area, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and finally hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides gathered in the Liaoyang area to fight.

Nogi Noshinori's Third Army in the direction of Lushun also tried to attack Lushun, but in an attempted offensive at the end of June, although several positions were overcome, it was also the first time that it encountered stubborn resistance from the Russian army, and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties.

On the one hand, because of a certain number of casualties, and on the other hand, there is an extreme shortage of logistical supplies, the Japanese army fighting in the northeast has reached more than 200,000, and the main force is in Liaoyang and the Russian army to carry out a super-large-scale fierce battle, for ammunition and various consumption can be described as unprecedented.

All kinds of supplies, especially the shortage of ammunition, forced the Third Army to slow down the pace of attacking Lushun, at this time Nogi Noshinori was quite normal, so the Third Army after the attempt to attack Lushun was unfavorable, it was to implement the strategic defensive posture, but to put the main energy into the Liaoyang Campaign.

If we only start from the perspective of the Japanese army, then the current strategy of the Japanese army is correct, after all, Lushun is a dead place for the army, and the Japanese army does not need too much strength to be able to contain the Russian army in Lushun, so as to free up the main force to solve the main force of the Russian army in the direction of Liaoyang first, and there is no need to invest a large number of troops to gnaw at such a fortress as Lushun on the premise.

It can be said that before July 1904, the actions of the Japanese army were relatively reasonable and normal, and they did not deviate from the original trajectory of history.

However, although it is not as cheap as a large-scale history, one thing is worth noting: in a series of battles in Liaoyang from June to early July, although the overall appearance of the Russian army still failed to meet the expectations of the world, and it was a big difference from the level of the great powers under the influence of the people, it was still much better than the battle of the Yalu River and the previous southward reinforcement of Lushun, as well as the table in the Jinzhou and Dalian campaigns.

Unlike the one-shot defeat in the previous series of battles, this time the Russian army fought relatively tenaciously in the Battle of Liaoyang, and countless people were killed and wounded every day, but they still held the battle line.

However, compared to the casualties of the Russian army, the casualties of the attacking Japanese army were greater!

In particular, in a full-front charge attack launched by the Japanese army on July 3, the second division responsible for launching the charge faced the intensive fire of more than 100 machine guns of the Russians, as well as the intensive killing and wounding of artillery fire and infantry fire.

"I said a long time ago, if I hadn't opened up such an ancient brain, it would be impossible not to die ten thousand people!" In Jinzhou, hundreds of miles away from Liaoyang, Chen Guangyuan frowned slightly and said: "If the Japanese army does not change its tactics, it will be difficult to fight in the face of the Russian army's defense system!" ”

In fact, many officers in the Third Town are also biased towards the Japanese, and Chen Guangyuan is not exempt from vulgarity, and like some officers in the other Third Town, he hopes that the Japanese will be able to win and avoid the Northeast becoming a Yellow Russia.

However, Wang Zhanyuan next to him said: "This time, the Japanese are still too confident, and I think that the main force of the Russian army in Liaoyang is as vulnerable as several other Russian armies!" ”

"Next, I'm afraid the Japanese army is going to play the old tactic of attacking in a roundabout way!" Meng Enyuan also interjected.

Don't think that the tactics of the Japanese army in these years will only play with meat 'bomb charge', in fact, it is not, the Japanese army during the Russo-Japanese War advocated a roundabout outflanking and avoiding a frontal attack, as for the Battle of Arthur, on the one hand, the Japanese navy was too urgent, and on the other hand, it was related to Nogi Noshinori's elm head, which did not represent the overall tactical style of the Japanese army at that time.

In fact, the reason why the Japanese army was able to win in the Liaoyang Battle and the Battle of Mukden in history was because of the flank attack and the roundabout outflanking and laying the victory, in fact, not only the Russo-Japanese War, but also the tactical concept of the Japanese army under the German Army for decades has hardly changed, that is, four words: roundabout outflanking.

The First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and even the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations have always been played like this, and the Battle of Lushun is just a special case, but it is such a special case that makes the Chinese people generally think that the generals in the Japanese army are all fools like Nogi Noshinori, who can only play meat and charge......

Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in February, the Third Town is naturally paying close attention to the battle between the two armies because it is on the side, and it is also collecting the dynamics of the two armies with bandits, local patrols and other public opinions.

In this way, the third town will be able to keep up to date with the latest developments in the Russo-Japanese war, and even know some details of the battle.

Although it is impossible to obtain the military deployment of both sides in advance, it can also get a general experience afterwards, at least the second division suffered a major defeat, and this kind of thing reached Zhao Dongyun's ears in less than two days.

But to be honest, no matter how tragic the battle of Liaoyang was, in fact, Zhao Dongyun didn't care much, but on the other hand, the military operations of Japan and Russia also affected his arms trade from the side.

On July 5, Andrei, a Russian diplomat stationed in Jinzhou, lodged a strong diplomatic protest against Zhao Dongyun, demanding that Zhao Dongyun stop supplying artillery shells to the Japanese army!

Looking at Andre with a face full of anger, Zhao Dongyun was also unhappy, damn, you have to take care of Lao Tzu's business!

In the face of Andrei's private protest, Zhao Dongyun naturally won't take it seriously, anyway, they won't make trouble on the table, why, because Zhao Dongyun not only provided arms to the Japanese himself, but more arms were actually provided to the Russians, and it would not be good for them to make trouble on the table!

Anyway, Zhao Dongyun has made up his mind, whoever gives money will sell it to whomever he wants, and it is not offended to sell both of the two families, if Nima dares to cut off my financial route, I will dare to cut off the back road of your army.

The current Zhao Dongyun has this qualification, and although the army of more than 15,000 people under his command is not worth mentioning in the entire Northeast Battlefield, if he suddenly sends troops at this critical moment, and does not care about the political impact and other consequences, he can directly penetrate the rear road of the Russian army or the rear road of the Japanese army like a stunned man, it can be said that he can directly affect the victory or defeat of this war.

Of course, it's cool to do this in a short period of time, and the next thing is estimated to be a comprehensive revenge from others, not only Zhao Dongyun will die ugly, but even the whole of China will suffer......

However, the Russians protested and protested, but they still did not engage in any formal diplomatic protests!

On the other hand, the Japanese themselves seemed to have discovered that Zhao Dongyun continued to engage in arms trade with the Russians, and even let them know that the heavy machine gun that killed and injured at least the casualties of the Japanese army was sold by Zhao Dongyun to the Russians, and now the Russians are still providing a large number of machine gun bullets.

However, he was blocked back by Zhao Dongyun, and he still said the same sentence: I have the arms, and whoever wants to sell them will get the money! I don't care if you're a Russian or a Japanese.

However, the Japanese themselves could not cut off the source on Zhao Dongyun's side, but they used other methods, they found Feng Delin and even Zhang Zuolin, trying to cut off the arms smuggling channel from Liaoxi to Russia.

"Damn, these days, I really dare to cut off our financial route!" After learning that another batch of ordnance was robbed by disguised horse bandits, Zhao Dongyun was not angry yet, Zhao Dongping just couldn't wait to jump up: "Third brother, I can't continue like this, I don't plan to let go of this day, and I haven't found out who did it yet, but I don't believe it if I want to say that there is no day" I am a ghost." ”

Zhao Dongyun also had a gloomy face, he didn't expect that the Japanese himself was more resolute than the Russians, and the Russians only protested verbally, but he didn't expect that the Japanese himself would dare to directly pull the bandits in western Liaoning to intercept his arms trade route.

At this time, Lu Shuanggun, who was slightly shorter and dark-skinned but extremely strong, also spoke: "My lord, we can't continue to endure it, we have been robbed of two batches of goods this month, not to mention that these two batches of goods alone are worth more than 60,000 taels of silver, and my brothers alone have been killed and injured more than 20 times!" ”

"If you want to say that the horse team that robbed the goods has nothing to do with Zhang Zuolin, it must be a lie with open eyes, now what kind of hand does the Japanese himself give us, if we don't cut off the hand that the Japanese himself stretched out, we don't want to do business with the Russians in the future!" Lu Shuanggun continued: "My lord, let's fight!" ”