In the past five months, Nogi Noshinori launched three general attacks on Vladivostok with three main divisions, two reserve divisions, and two field artillery brigades, totaling nearly 60,000 men.

After these three general attacks, the Japanese army wolf rushed to the pig, flesh and blood flew sideways, Nogi used a sea of people, tunnels, night attacks, and even organized many death squads with white cloth tied to their heads to charge, all of which ended in failure.

Even Nogi Noshinori's two sons died in the battlefield.

But Vladivostok remained immovable, and the Japanese Third Army paid the price of 50,000 casualties.

This price is not unmistakable.

In Vladivostok, which was already in the cold winter, the temperature was already extremely cold, and the defensive surface of the fortress was covered with more than one meter of ice, and the artillery of the two Japanese field artillery brigades, as well as many shells of those siege guns, fell on these ice surfaces and often did not detonate.

Because the strength of the fuze of the Japanese artillery shell was very weak, it was not suitable for fighting in extremely cold weather, so the contact force of hitting the ice was far from the strength of the fuze detonation of the shell.

This also led to a very interesting result, the Russian soldiers in Vladivostok collected Japanese shells every day, and then replaced them with their own fuses, and used their own artillery to shoot back to the Japanese artillery positions.

Over the past three months, three siege guns of the Japanese artillery brigade have been blown up by "own" shells, and several more have been injured.

The tenacity of the Russian Army made the Third Army almost helpless.

In the past three months, the loss of more than 50,000 people has also made the Japanese cabinet and the emperor very dissatisfied.

Even Aritomo Yamagu, who had always recommended Nogi Noshinori, proposed to directly dismiss Nogi Noshinori and hold him accountable for his command mistakes.

This was to send Nogi Noshinori to a military court, but Emperor Meiji refused.

Emperor Meiji knew from the beginning that Nogi Noshinori did not have the ability to command modern warfare, but the Japanese Army needed Nogi's katana spirit.

And Emperor Meiji also knew that once Nogi Noshinori was investigated, the final result would inevitably be that Nogi Noshinori committed suicide in front of the battle.

This was not what the emperor wanted, and in the end the Japanese cabinet offered a compromise.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese forces stationed in Korea, Oyama Iwa, while retaining all the face and image of Nogi Noshinori, asked his chief of staff, Kodama Gentaro, to secretly take over the command of the Third Army.

For this reason, Daesanam transferred 20,000 main forces of the Korean Army to the Third Army.

The main force of 20,000, led by Kodama Gentaro, quickly moved and took the train towards Vladivostok.

As Gentaro Kodama was to actually command the Third Army, he needed to reach the Third Army as soon as possible, so he would advance on the first train with the 37th Wing, which was in the vanguard.

This news was known to Xu Yanwu as soon as possible.

It's really Kodama Gentaro who has attracted too much attention from the Red Guard Corps, as the real three heroes of the Japanese army, Kodama Gentaro is a real commander, a veritable wise general.

As a new army general, he also served as the Minister of War, and was the Japanese chief planner of the Russo-Japanese War, it can be said that the Japanese Army was able to defeat the Russian Army step by step, and Kodama Gentaro made great contributions.

The entire military operations of the Japanese Army in Siberia and Korea were advised by Gentaro Kodama, and even most of them were adjudicated by himself.

In Xu Yanwu's view, the commander of the Japanese Third Army is a mentally retarded person, and if the Third Army is given another 100,000 people, the commander has not been replaced, and Vladivostok is still Russian.

Kokodama Gentaro is completely different, this is an opponent that Xu Yanwu can pay attention to.

However, Xu Yanwu didn't have any feelings of sympathy, what he wanted most was to kill Kodama Gentaro, because this person was really dangerous.

Nipping all possibilities in the bud, Xu Yanwu is not without courage, courage and wisdom to meet Yugen Taro for a while, but there is no need.

As a handsome person, everything should be considered in the overall situation, and the trouble can be easily solved, and it will never create more difficulty.

When Gentaro Kodama set off by car, Xu Yanwu also gathered some soldiers and planted bombs on the railway, which was originally built by the Russians.

On the train that had just departed from Rajin, Gentaro Kodama did not know the future, and he was in the command compartment, carefully looking at the defense map of the Vladivostok fortress on the table.

In fact, Nogi Noshinori is not stupid, and he also knows the importance of the 356 Heights, and he is also concentrating his forces to capture the 356 Heights.

However, Nogi Noshinori's command was very problematic, and he did not concentrate artillery fire, but he was only worried about the counterattack of the Russian army in Vladivostok.

This kind of command ability, if it is placed in the Red Guard Corps, it will definitely be sent to a military court.

The reason why a fortress is a fortress is because of the defense of the fortress, and if a real commander has the strength to capture the fortress, he can't wait for the defenders in the fortress to come out and look for death.

And for the key commanding heights of the fortress, it is necessary to concentrate all superior firepower, let alone let the Russian defenders on the high ground have a chance to breathe.

In terms of offensive tactics, Nogi Noshinori has made an extremely serious mistake, or Nogi Noshinori's command ability has seriously lagged behind this era.

The Japanese attack was only set off after the artillery fire, and the defenders on the Russian heights could calmly dodge the artillery and wait for the artillery fire to stop before going to their positions.

Artillery was wasted, and the Russian soldiers, who calmly entered the defense, were able to easily block the Japanese attack.

These were the main reasons for the failure of the Japanese Third Army's offensive in the previous five months.

After learning about these conditions, Kodama Gentaro had a complete offensive plan and tactics in mind, and he was confident that he would soon return to North Korea, because the 356 heights could be captured in a few days.

And as long as the 356 heights are taken, the fortress of Vladivostok will inevitably be breached.

Just as the train entered Russia, the bomb under the tracks was detonated accurately, and most of the train's carriages were directly destroyed by the bomb.

The remaining train cars also flipped on their sides of the railway, and many surviving Japanese soldiers had just climbed out of the train, and the Red Police soldiers lying in ambush on both sides, armed with Russian rifles, had already surrounded the overturned train.

All the surviving Japanese were shot before they could react.

Xu Yanwu personally led the guards to find the command car where Kodama Gentaro was, and dragged Kodama Gentaro out of the carriage.

Before Gentaro Kodama could figure out the situation, his head was covered with a black cloth, and all the staff officers in the car were taken away, and the wounded staff officers and soldiers of the 37th Wing were sent to see Amaterasu one after another.

Confirming the identity of Gentaro Kodama, the Red Police Corps quickly evacuated and soon disappeared into the vast sea of snow.