Mukden, headquarters of the First Route Army.

Chen Jizu convened a meeting of senior generals above the division commander level, and he was appointed commander of the First Route Army, mainly responsible for attacking the Japanese army on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula.

Chen Jizu looked at the army commanders and division commanders sitting on the left and right sides, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the order from the General Staff has come down, and from now on, we can choose the opportunity to attack." But between the offensive, we have to find out the deployment of the Japanese troops on the Liaodong Peninsula, and for this reason, the military intelligence department has given us the necessary help, and now Lieutenant Colonel Yang will introduce the situation to us! ”

There was no applause, this Lieutenant Colonel Yang did not wait for the applause, but after Chen Jizu called his name, he directly stood up and walked to the big map to pick up the command whip and said: "Generals, according to the information we have, the Japanese army has deployed the first line of defense in the Pulandian area of the South Manchurian Railway Line, there were originally six independent garrison battalions along the South Manchurian Railway, plus the military police force has a total of about 5,000 people, and their soldiers are basically equipped with Type 38 rifles, each soldier is issued with 200 rounds of ammunition, no grenades, There were no grenadiers or mortars, and each garrison battalion had a Taisho 3-year heavy machine gun and two 75-mm field guns, and there was no other firepower. They deployed these six garrison battalions, plus the gendarmerie, on the front line of Pulandian and Piziwo. In addition, 6,000 bandits and Mongolian horse teams organized by the Japanese, and the Japanese-controlled Zongsha Party also joined the defense of this area. In addition, the 19th Division of the Japanese Army was deployed in Jinzhou, Dalian, and Lushunkou. Among them, there is a brigade in Jinzhou, and another brigade is deployed in Dalian and Lushunkou! ”

"All the generals know that. The commander of the 19th Division of the Japanese Army was Koichiro Tachibana, and this division had only recently been formed. However, its combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of the Japanese army's permanent divisions, and there is not much difference in strength, and the reason why it is a type B division is because its artillery is not as much as a type A division! The soldiers' armament was the same as that of the Japanese Army's Division A, all of which were equipped with Type 38 rifles with 200 rounds of ammunition, and the officers did not have pistols and were equipped with command knives."

"The most difficult to fight is the Port of Arthur, which took the Manchus ten years to build into a fortress. Although it was far from satisfactory by the time it was completed, it was already very strong at the time, and it was even called 'the first fortress in Asia' and 'one of the world's famous military ports', and the defense of this fortress was further improved under the management of Tsarist Russia and then Japan."

"The Lushunkou fortress is surrounded by mountains, and the terrain is dangerous, and it is a typical place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Russian army and the Japanese army have operated here successively, and have built quite intact fortifications, with 46 fortresses of various types and 72 large and small forts. According to our understanding, the Japanese had 400,000 shells in reserve there, and the Japanese deployed a large number of heavy machine guns in various forts, as well as a large number of live barbed wire in open terrain! ”

After Lieutenant Colonel Yang finished speaking, he nodded to the generals present. Then he stepped aside, and at this time Chen Jizu clapped his hands again, and several staff officers carried another large map and hung it on the other wall.

Chen Jizu said: "The garrison battalions of the South Manchurian Railway and the bandits and horse teams of the Zongshe Party organization have a total of 11,000 first lines of defense. Let's not discuss it, it's just a temporary line of defense deployed by the Japanese. Despite the combined number of 11,000 men, the defenses here are actually the weakest. The main thing is that we bombard that line of defense for a few hours, and that line of defense is basically abandoned, let's mainly talk about Jinzhou, Dalian and Lushunkou! ”

"Compared with the Port of Arthur, the defense of Dalian and Jinzhou is relatively simple, and our attack is easier, but because the peninsula is facing the sea on three sides, it is impossible to attack as freely as on land, I think that during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Second Army took Jinzhou at an extremely heavy price, and even the third son of Nogi Nishinori was killed by the Russian army in the battle to attack Jinzhou. Instead of grieving, Nogi felt extremely proud and proud of it, and at the same time he encouraged his second son to follow this example and be loyal to the emperor! ”

"In addition to the defense on land, in the port of Port Arthur, there are some small Japanese ships, patrol boats, gunboats, and an old cruiser, because the main force of the Japanese Navy was destroyed by our army, so these old cruisers do not dare to go out again, lest they encounter our naval fleet. From the analysis of the battle situation of the Russo-Japanese War that year, Nogi Noshinori's command was wrong, and it was not advisable to blindly storm it; in the face of such complete fortifications and such powerful firepower in the fortress, the strong attack could only pay heavy casualties, although the Japanese won the war at an extremely heavy price, but in fact did not seek any benefits, and the battle of Arthur Pass also showed that the coastal fortress could only be held for a long time under the condition that the garrison troops were closely coordinated with the army and navy."

"Let's talk about Lushunkou, the most difficult to fight should be the 203 heights, when the Russian army deployed 50,500 people in Lushunkou, of which 8,000 were sailors, 646 artillery pieces, including 350 fortress guns, 62 machine guns. For the first time, the Japanese invested 48,000 men and 400 artillery pieces, of which 198 were siege guns and 72 machine guns, which was equivalent to the strength of three divisions. Escorted by a naval fleet, the Japanese landed in Dalian Bay and soon began to attack, strategizing strategic locations such as Laohengshan on the periphery, but after the Japanese occupied Phoenix Mountain, the Russian army was compressed in the area of the fortress."

"After the Japanese army compressed the Russian army in the area of the fortress, they soon launched a strong attack on the fortress, and the Japanese used almost crowd tactics, so the mountains were full of Japanese soldiers shouting wildly, but this group of Japanese soldiers went forward one after another to become the ghosts of the heavy machine guns in the Russian fortress, and the Russian artillery fire was fierce, and occupied the high ground, the Russian artillery fire could hit the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese artillery under the mountain could not hit the Russians on the mountain because of the elevation angle, moreover, The guns of the Russian ships in the harbor opened fire on the Japanese attacking Japanese on the ground, and the artillery fire was extremely fierce, and after five days of fierce fighting, the frontal attack of the Japanese was repulsed, with 16,000 casualties and 5,000 Russian casualties! ”

The so-called meat bullet attack war is to use the bushido spirit of Japanese officers and soldiers who are not afraid of death to carry out a continuous sea of people charge against the Russian army, and force the Russian army to collapse and finally surrender with this terrifying tactic, so that a large number of Japanese troops carried out meat bullet attacks on the Russian positions in dense formations, and wave after wave of Japanese soldiers were ruthlessly swallowed up by the tongue of fire and artillery sprayed by the Russian heavy machine guns, But the Japanese soldiers in the back continued to charge, and the whole battlefield was covered with corpses and rivers of blood, and the battlefield became a slaughterhouse, and the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to rush to the front of the Russian army position were electrocuted to death by barbed wire with high-voltage electricity! ”

"From the situation of the offensive and defensive war between Japan and Russia, we can see that the crowd tactic is simply to send soldiers to death in front of this kind of fortified fortress with strong defense and strong firepower, so this offensive tactic is not advisable for us, the reason why the Japanese use this tactic is also because their offensive firepower is insufficient, but we are different, our offensive firepower is many times stronger than that of Japan and Tsarist Russia, even the firepower of the German and British armies is not as good as ours!"

Speaking of this, Chen Jizu stopped, looked at the division commanders and army commanders, and asked, "Everyone, is there any good way for us to reduce casualties?" ”

Huang Yingjie, commander of the Second Army, said: "If the air force bomber group can be seconded, I believe that the Lushunkou fortress is not vulnerable at all, after all, up to now, we have only used the air force to bomb for more than a month, and the Lushunkou side is estimated to get the news later, they have no time to strengthen the fortress air defense, after a few rounds of bombing, the fortress will definitely be blown up!" ”

Chen Jizu shook his head when he heard this: "No, the president has already said in advance that it is not allowed to bomb the country with the air force, this is a matter of principle, and then think of other ways!" ”

Yao Qinian, commander of the Fourth Army, frowned and said: "The machine guns in the Japanese fortress are not terrible, we can use snipers to deal with heavy machine gun shooters, the biggest threat to us is the artillery in the fortresses on the top of the mountain, due to the problem of the elevation angle of artillery shooting, our artillery can not hit the mountain, but the Japanese artillery on the mountain can lightly shell us, causing heavy casualties to our attacking troops, even the mortar can not hit so high, especially the 203 heights, with the curved fire performance of the mortar can not hit so high." , at most, can only hit halfway up the mountain, and as long as we expose the location of the artillery position, we will soon be retaliated against by the Japanese mountaintop artillery group! ”

"Also, the naval guns on the Japanese ships in the harbor are also a huge threat to our attacking forces, although their caliber is not large, they can not support a large number, and our naval fleet wants to shell the Japanese ships in the harbor, first of all, it must be taken care of by the port coastal defense batteries, and I heard that the main fleet of the navy has another mission, even if it can transfer warships, the estimated tonnage is not large, and the power of naval guns is limited, whether it can beat those coastal defense batteries is not a matter of words!"

At this time, Ma Yuchen, the commander of the Fifth Division, stood up and said: "I have thought of a way, that is, I don't know if it can be successfully implemented, if it can be successful, it can reduce a lot of trouble and casualties for our attack!" ”

Chen Jizu stretched out his hand and said, "Say!" ”

"Yes, sir!" Ma Yuchen nodded and said: "If there are intelligence officers of our army in Lushunkou, I will send people to infiltrate Lushunkou to find a way to blow up the ammunition depot of the Japanese, and we must send particularly strong agents, and our army's intelligence personnel in Lushun will be responsible for responding, if it is successful, this battle can not be fought, without ammunition, how can the Japanese fight?" ”

The generals' eyes lit up when they heard this, Chen Jizu slapped the table and said with a smile: "Okay, this method is good, damn it, I'll immediately contact the intelligence department to see if they have intelligence officers in Lushunkou, at this time our army has not launched an attack, the Japanese should not be very strict, I think the probability of success of this method is still very high!" (To be continued......)