Throughout Japan's foreign wars over the years, they all revolved around the Joseon Dynasty.

The Joseon Dynasty was a semi-colonial country, and both Russia and Japan tried to get their hands on Korea and wanted to really control Korea.

Although Japan had a small military presence in Korea, it mainly relied on "civilian" forces to control Korea, such as ronin and merchants.

Russia, on the other hand, relied on the power of its embassies to infiltrate the Joseon Dynasty.

By this time, the Joseon Dynasty was already a frightened bird, and in the face of Japan, which had always been aggressive, the only choice the Joseon Dynasty was to lean towards Russia.

Naturally, the only way for Japan to change this situation is to completely drive out the Russian forces from Korea, and then encroach on them step by step, until they completely fish North Korea.

After Japan's combined naval fleet succeeded in seizing sea supremacy, Japan and Russia declared war on each other two days later.

Russia has also urgently launched a plan to support the Far East and speed up the construction of the Far Eastern Railway.

Japan, which has seized control of the sea, is also actively preparing for the landing in Korea, and the navy is responsible for blocking the remaining forces of the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port and not daring to come out.

After more than 40 days of preparations, the first batch of Japanese landing troops successfully landed in the Korean town of Nampo and marched directly north.

The Japanese First Army, which landed in Korea, reached the edge of the Yalu River after nearly a month's march without encountering any resistance.

Two months have passed since the outbreak of the war, and the Russian Army has barely mobilized 40,000 troops from the west.

And in response to the Japanese landing of the First Army in Japan, a large number of deployments were made.

Nearly 20,000 men of the East Manchurian detachment occupied positions on the right bank of the Yalu River;

The South Manchurian detachment of about 22,000 people is deployed in the Yingkou Dashiqiao and Haicheng areas;

Nearly 30,000 people of the Kwantung detachment were deployed in Vladivostok.

The main force of nearly 30,000 people gathered in the Cheongjin area.

In addition, nearly 30,000 people are on standby in South Ussuri.

Standing in front of the First Japanese Army was the Russian army of the East Manchurian detachment.

The Russian army defense line near Manpo, with clearly visible trenches and defenses, was completely uncamouflaged.

This made Xu Yanwu, who was lurking in the vicinity to watch, suddenly quite speechless when he saw this.

"Zasulich is really an unreliable person, he doesn't know that the Japanese have come to him, and the positions he has arranged are simply ridiculous." Xu Yanwu's evaluation of Lieutenant General Zasulich, commander of the East Manchurian Detachment of the Russian Army, was quite bad.

It's not that Xu Yanwu is subjectively conjecturing, the deployment of Russia in front of him will be a three-year-old child.

The exposed bunkers and trenches, even the artillery positions in the rear were not camouflaged, and forty artillery pieces of various kinds were simply exposed in front of them.

Japan is not blind, let alone the Japanese army that came over secretly.

Zasulic was a pure bureaucrat with little experience in command and did not know how to judge the enemy.

Xu Yanwu can understand this, but what he doesn't like is that he has to take it seriously.

The Russian Army generally looks down on the thinking of Asians and dominates the battlefield, but even the commander-in-chief of the first army has no scruples.

Compared with Zasurić, the commander of the Japanese First Army, Kuroki Weizhen, is not easy to mess with, he is a general with a lot of actual combat command experience, and he is also a well-known existence in the Japanese army military circles.

Analyzing the situation of both sides, Xu Yanwu slowly made a decision in his heart.

Although the layout of the Russian position is problematic and too obvious, I have to admit that the physique of the Russian soldiers is indeed much stronger than that of the Asians.

In addition to the tactics of the two sides, but in terms of the duel between the two armies, Xu Yanwu concluded that this would be a very "exciting" battle.

The only problem now is that once the Russian artillery positions are suppressed by the Japanese artillery, the Japanese, which has a large amount of artillery support, will make the war very easy.

The Japanese First Army brought hundreds of artillery pieces, although most of them were mountain artillery, but the artillery of the Russian Army was about the same, and the number was still 60 less.

As long as the artillery fire of both sides can be balanced, or the Russian artillery can have an advantage, even if the Japanese can defeat the East Manchurian detachment, they will inevitably kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800.

This time, Xu Yanwu personally arrived at the front line of the battlefield and secretly brought a troop as a weapon to balance this war.

When Xu Yanwu analyzed the next battle between the two sides, in the camp of the Japanese First Army, Kuroki Weizhen was also studying the deployment of the Russian Army.

As Xu Yanwu thought, the defense of the Russian Army was completely exposed to the Japanese First Army.

Artillery positions, the width of the positions, the range of the artillery, and the number of troops, the Japanese First Army had just arrived and received complete intelligence.

In front of the First Army was the main force of the Russian East Manchurian Detachment, numbering almost 8,000 people, all of whom were active units of the Russian Army with strong combat capability.

Ten kilometers behind the defensive line, in Manpu, there were also reserve troops of the East Manchurian detachment, numbering 12,000.

Placing the reserve troops ten kilometers away from the front line made Kuroki Weizhen feel a lot more relieved.

The Dongman detachment, which was completely exposed, Kuroki quickly formulated targeted attack tactics for Zhen.

And the so-called targeted tactics, in fact, are based on artillery, camouflage artillery positions, which can not only suppress Russian artillery, but also quickly support the infantry's attack operations.

The artillery brigades of the First Army soon found an excellent artillery position.

It is only three kilometers from the line of defense of the Russian troops, and the range is just enough to attack the artillery positions of the Russians.

The position is located behind a hill, covered with dense vegetation, which can take advantage of the movement of the hill to block the attack of Russian artillery and calmly carry out artillery strikes on the Russians.

The Russian Army, three kilometers away, did not notice at all, the Japanese troops who were building artillery positions, and even the news of the arrival of the Japanese First Army, did not even know.

After a day of secret preparations, the Japanese First Army also officially appeared in front of the Russian troops.

Idle Russian soldiers, this is when they start to get serious.

However, the hairy bears who instinctively looked down and thought that one person could fight four were about to understand what a bloody war was.

Xu Yanwu, who had been waiting for more than two months of ground fighting, was about to start, and Xu Yanwu, who was hovering on the edge of the battlefield, smelled the strong smell of gunpowder, and led a unit to lurk towards the place where the Japanese artillery was.

In order to be able to effectively intervene in this war, a large number of Red Guard soldiers were dispatched from the East Indies to secretly infiltrate Korea in two months, spread all over the vicinity of the Russian army defenses, and could assemble and fight at any time.