The Japanese Third Army, which was specially designed to occupy Vladivostok, was strictly selected from the configuration of weapons and equipment to the selection of commanding generals.

With 186 240-mm siege guns and 10 280-mm siege guns, the Japanese Third Army mobilized a large number of laborers and civilians to compress the defensive line on the periphery of Vladivostok in Russia and began to build artillery positions.

These difficult-to-serve siege guns are often 20 tons or more, plus 3 or 400 catties of shells to prepare tens of thousands of rounds, assembling and constructing an artillery platform is a very huge project.

This is unimaginable in modern warfare, because the siege gun only has an elevation angle up and down, the huge body of the 240 mm siege gun weighing 20 tons and the weight of 280 mm and 26 tons, all need to run on the track and the crane combined with manual loading of shells, and need to have a conveying track and a circular angle correction track.

In order to serve these 196 siege artillery, after the 1st Army and the 2nd Army and the 3rd Army converged, they were busy for almost two months.

During this two-month period, the Third Army remained primarily responsible for the reduction of forces at the Vladivostok fortress.

Nogi Noshinori, who had high hopes from the Japanese Ministry of War, the Cabinet, and the Emperor, also performed very well at first, and under his command, he easily defeated all the outer defenses of Vladivostok Fortress.

The Russian army of 50,000 entered the fortress of Vladivostok and also held the 356 heights east of the fortress of Vladivostok.

As the first fortress in the Far East that Russia has built for many years, Vladivostok is not a fortress that can be easily breached.

Vladivostok Fortress, with more than six hundred guns of various kinds, although not a lot of shells, was enough to hold out for several months.

And in order to be able to defend Vladivostok, the remaining warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet, which did not dare to leave the port, simply moved all the shells to the fortress, so that they could support it more.

After several battles with the Japanese, the Russian army did not dare to underestimate the Japanese anymore, and built a large number of bunkers and trenches around the fortress, set up machine gun positions and high-voltage power grids, and laid mines.

And between the various fortresses and batteries of the fortress, trenches were dug to connect the defenses, and the 50,000 Russian troops who garrisoned the fortress were demoralized in a short time.

While the Japanese Third Army was actively preparing to attack Vladivostok, the main forces of the Japanese First Army and the Second Army joined forces and fought again with the Russian Army in Shuangchengzi.

At the cost of nearly 30,000 dead and wounded, the Japanese Army successfully occupied Shuangchengzi in 45 days, leaving only Vladivostok for the Russian Far East Army.

And Vladivostok was also cut off from all external relations by Japan, and the Far Eastern Railway supplied the middle section, the railway was controlled by the Japanese, and the sea was blocked.

Even if the Russian government wanted to send troops over, it would not only be slower than Japan, but it would not be able to send enough troops at one time, so it could only support it with small troops, which was the tactic of adding fuel.

The war situation is almost at stake for the Russian government.

The only thing that can change all this is the Baltic Fleet, which is based on high hopes.

And at this moment, if the Baltic Fleet wants to reach the Far East, it will take at least several months, and far water will not quench the thirst of the near.

Vladivostok was completely isolated, without any support or supplies, and everything depended on the 50,000 Russian troops inside the fortress.

Outside the fortress in Vladivostok, more than a dozen people watched from afar the war that was about to break out, and a man in the middle, with a tall and straight body, was particularly eye-catching.

Xu Yanwu, the army hero of the Red Police Corps, is surrounded by all the current elite generals of the Red Police Corps.

This is a war that deserves to be evaluated, experienced and understood.

The Red Police Corps did not give up a good opportunity to learn, and the fortress bow and arrow was a subject that the Red Police Corps would inevitably face.

And when it comes to the word fortress, it gives the impression that it must be bloody.

As the attacking side, if you want to take the fortress, you must pay an extremely heavy price.

It is inevitable that the Red Police Corps will encounter similar wars in the future, or in other words, this place will soon become the main battlefield of the Red Police Corps.

The Japanese will be inside the city, and the attacking side will be the Red Guard.

Fortification, a battlefield piled up with life, even the most elite troops, will inevitably have great losses.

There will be no exception to this even for the Red Guard Corps, after all, the current Red Guard Corps does not have tanks.

Relying on the flesh and blood of the infantry, how to block the machine gun bunkers and artillery in the fortress......

"Guys, if the target is this fortress, how would you attack it?" Xu Yanwu asked the generals around him.

The generals standing beside Xu Yanwu are all divisional and brigade-level officers, and their military ranks are all major generals, and they are also the highest military rank in the Red Police Corps except for heroes.

These generals, although not heroes, are born generals.

When they were recruited, they were already major generals, which was the base's evaluation of them, and Fan Yize was also satisfied with the command ability of these generals.

When the Red Police Corps was recruited, everyone had a companion rank, and some people were recruited, although they were not heroes, but they started out as generals.

This is the knowledge and talent and experience, and the officers of the base have already appeared when they have given the ability to every soldier of the Red Police Corps.

In terms of ability, every Red Police soldier who can become a general has the ability to independently lead an army into battle.

Moreover, all Red Police soldiers are able to continue to grow through actual combat and acquired learning, and are promoted to the rank again according to their combat exploits and performances, as well as tests.

It's just that the rank of the Red Police Corps is too high.

Now, a year has passed, and after the wars with the Netherlands and the British, no officer has ever had a chance to be promoted.

"The terrain of the Vladivostok fortress is high, it is difficult for the artillery fire of the attacking side to fully exert its power, it is impossible to observe the situation inside the fortress, the blind shelling effect is extremely poor, it is difficult to cause damage to the important targets of the fortress, the only point is to make every effort to seize the 356 heights outside the fortress, on this height, the situation inside the fortress can be clearly observed, and then the artillery design is corrected."

"As long as the fortifications inside the fortress can be destroyed with artillery, the defense of the fortress will be greatly reduced. On the defensive side, there are only trenches and mines left, and for the attackers, the threat will plummet. ”

"If the fleet can enter the outer harbor of Vladivostok, it can also assist the army in launching an artillery bombardment of the fortress, and Vladivostok will be subject to both naval and army artillery fire, and it will only take three days to destroy ......"