Chapter 100: The Capture of Vladivostok
When Xu Yanwu received the news of the naval victory, the Japanese Third Army did not know that its combined fleet had been destroyed.
On the morning of the end of the naval battle, the soldiers of the Japanese Third Army still lined up in the camp according to the routine training tasks of the past few days, preparing to start a new day.
Due to the disappearance of Gentaro Kodama, the commander of the Third Army is still Nogi Noshinori.
In the later battles, the performance of the Third Army was quite reluctant, and there were no too tough voices in the country, so it was necessary to let Nogi Noshinori do something.
Recently, with the victory of the Battle of Shuangchengzi, the Japanese Army can finally relax, and there is no need to continue to transfer Korean troops, and even in order to strengthen its control over North Korea in the future, the First Army has been ordered to return to Korea to assist the North Korean troops in controlling the situation.
The fundamental purpose of the war was Korea, and Japan had no ambition to annex Russian land, because that would fundamentally and really provoke Russia, and Japan could no longer afford to fight.
And the capture of Vladivostok was a strategic goal, to let Nicholas II of the Kremlin know that the situation in the Far East was irreparable.
Nogi Noshinori knows very well that he is now very close to the ultimate strategic goal, so close that he can take a light step out, as if he is walking out of his room at random now.
Although he felt the deep pain of losing his son, he finally lived up to His Majesty the Emperor, and Nogi Noshinori also found his inner balance.
The fortress in front of me will be planted with the flag of the Great Japanese Empire in a few days, although it is very likely that it will not be planted for a few days, but it will be enough for the entire Yamato nation.
This battle will surely unite the unprecedented self-confidence of the nation, and all the sacrifices will be worth it.
The roar of cannons was heard in the distance, and Nogi Kinori, knowing that it was the sound of siege artillery, was carrying out a routine shelling of the fortress.
On the 356 heights, which were heavily defended by the Japanese Third Army, the wired telephone would always calibrate the artillery.
In the blink of an eye, another day passed, and Nogi Noshinori lay on his bed and slept comfortably.
And the headquarters of the Third Army, where he was located, was five kilometers from the Vladivostok front, even more than the artillery.
In the Amur Bay at night, the First Fleet slowly approached the waters near the Vladivostok Fortress and slowly approached in the direction of the fortress.
The whole of Japan still thinks that the sea power is in their hands, and many people do not even know that the Russo-Japanese naval war has broken out and is over.
In the estimated time, there is a possibility that a naval battle will break out today, and no later than tomorrow.
When there was no news, they all thought that at this time, the naval battle had not yet broken out, or had not yet ended.
But no one imagined that sea supremacy would be taken by the other side in such a quick time.
And it is not surprising at all that the combined fleet has been out since ten days ago, and in this era of backward modes of communication, there is often no news for more than ten days.
When the First Fleet approached Vladivostok, Xu Yanwu personally led a team and appeared at the side of Nogi Noshinori's headquarters.
Nogi Noshinori was a traditional infantry commander with his command far from the front line of the battlefield, outside the absolute safe distance of the artillery inside the Vladivostok fortress.
At this distance, although it became safe to stay away from the fortress, for the large army that was in front, the headquarters was actually the most empty here.
Nogi Noshinori is not unaware of this truth, but the Russians in Vladivostok will never come out, even if there are stragglers, the defenders in the headquarters will hold out until reinforcements arrive.
In the hazy night, several black shadows appeared in the camp, several Japanese soldiers at the gate of the headquarters camp, bored standing together smoking, for a few months, there was not a single ghost, plus victory was in sight, everyone was very relaxed, until they were cut throats, they really regretted it.
The sentry at the gate was silently eliminated, and several dark shadows entered the camp, hiding in the darkness of the night and the buildings.
The unaware Japanese patrol team also fell under the dagger one by one.
When the whole camp was quiet, none of the Japanese soldiers on duty were alive.
Xu Yanwu, who was in the dark, personally killed most of the Japanese patrols, and the reason why he personally led the team was also helpless, because there was no professional special operations unit in the Red Police Corps.
With the blank in the camp defense, Xu Yanwu skillfully opened the house where Nogi Noshinori was, came out after ten seconds, and then entered the next room, and the cycle continued.
When Xu Yanwu came out of the eighth room, he waved his hand, took everyone, and quickly evacuated the headquarters of the Third Army.
At the same time, on the 356 heights outside Vladivostok, most of the Japanese defenders were resting in the dark night, and only a few soldiers were standing guard on duty.
However, it was still a very cold weather environment, the vigil was not pleasant, the burning fire was warmed, and the soldiers on duty also gathered together to smoke to keep warm, and the cold night looked very calm.
In the undulating hills in the dark, the hazy figure quietly approached the defense line of the Japanese soldiers, and the silent crossbow arrows harvested the lone Japanese soldiers.
There were no lone Japanese soldiers, and the target was quickly concentrated on the Japanese soldiers around those fires, and a dozen or so Red Alert soldiers who acted together and were proficient in Japanese changed into Japanese military uniforms and approached to attack and kill.
The killing appeared when the Japanese soldiers were defenseless, and the dark night gave the sneak attackers the best cover, plus a fluent Japanese, a large number of Japanese soldiers, who did not know what happened until they died.
War is not only about artillery and charges, but also about wisdom.
The fall of the 356 heights, the main forces of the Third Army under the mountain, was completely unaware.
After the capture of the lower heights, a large number of Red Guard soldiers, under the cover of night, passed through the heights and entered the fortress of Vladivostok.
In fact, the Russian defenders in the fortress could not hold out for two days, since the day before yesterday, the food in the fortress has been exhausted, and if the navy does not come tomorrow, the Russians in the fortress will surrender.
When the Red Police soldiers appeared in the fortress, the Russian soldiers inside were too lazy to fight back, thinking that it was a night attack by Japanese troops, and they all raised their hands weakly.
Major General Zhan Tianyu, commander of the 1st Division of the Red Police Corps, who led the operation, was also quite speechless when he saw this, he also thought that there would be a fierce battle when he entered the fortress, and he had already contacted the First Fleet, and if the Japanese Third Army made any moves, he would carry out artillery bombardment on the Third Army to support the 1st Division in capturing Vladivostok.
Everything turned out to be easier than expected, and when the exhausted Russian soldiers realized that it was not the Japanese who had captured Vladivostok, they were all confused.
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