I have to say that the Red Guard Corps has secretly helped the Russian Army a lot, but the performance of the Russian Army, which has a group of bureaucrats, is still extremely disappointing.

Although Xu Yanwu attacked and captured Kodama Gentaro, the command of the Japanese Third Army still changed hands.

On the surface, there was still the Japanese Third Army under the command of Nogi Noshinori, but in the next few months, due to the Russian defenders in Vladivostok, who did not receive any supplies, finally ran out of food and ammunition, and the Japanese Third Army finally ushered in the dawn of victory.

However, because Kodama Gentaro did not intervene, the Russian defenders held out for five more months.

From the beginning of the Vladivostok War in July last year, to the beginning of the spring of the following year, the weather in Vladivostok warmed up, and the defenders in Vladivostok finally lost control of the outlying positions completely after holding out for ten months.

In the course of ten months, the Japanese Army paid nearly 80,000 dead and wounded, used up more than 300,000 shells, and the Russian Army, which held Vladivostok, eventually had less than 3,000 defenders left.

And in the tenth month, the 356 heights east of Vladivostok were captured by the Japanese.

If it weren't for the lack of ammunition and supplies for the Russian defenders, the war in Vladivostok would have lasted at least another month.

At the cost of 80,000 casualties, the Japanese Third Army was also exhausted, and the ammunition left by the two field artillery brigades did not add up to even a thousand rounds.

The 10-month-long fortification was an incomparably heavy burden on Japan, a resource-poor country.

However, the Russian army in Vladivostok still did not surrender, because in the north of Shuangchengzi, the 150,000 troops that Russia had sent to the Far East in the past ten months also began to move.

The weather warms up, and it is no longer a time when it is so cold that it is difficult to pull the bolt of the gun, and there is no need to worry about any non-combat attrition, and enough strength has been accumulated, and the Far Eastern Front of the Russian Army is approaching Shuangchengzi.

In order to save Vladivostok from danger, the Russian army not only gathered 150,000 troops, but also prepared sufficient weapons and ammunition, with the number of artillery pieces reaching 1,000 and the number of machine guns exceeding 100.

The delay of the Third Army in completely capturing Vladivostok made the First Army and the Second Army, which were blocking the front, naturally under great pressure, but more excited.

As long as the 150,000 Russian troops can be killed again, then this war ground battle will be over.

In the past half a year, the Japanese Ministry of War has also focused on increasing the number of troops in the First Army and the Second Army, and the two armies together have a total of 120,000 troops, and they are also waiting for the time for a decisive battle.

The battle was inevitable, and the Russian army, which was desperate to save Vladivostok, could not wait any longer after the 356 heights were breached.

The 150,000-strong army rushed directly to Shuangchengzi, in order to be able to defeat the Japanese First Army and the Second Army, then the danger of Vladivostok did not exist.

In May 1905, the 150,000 main forces of the Russian Far Eastern Front and the First and Second Armies of the Japanese Army met in Shuangchengzi, and the troops, artillery, and machine guns used by both sides were the largest since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War.

In the course of a month, the two sides invested a total of more than 300,000 troops, the Japanese First Army and the Second Army, supported by troops stationed in Korea, and after half a month after the battle, the strength was slightly more than the Russian army.

And with the support of the Third Army, in order to destroy the last main force of the Russian army in the Far East, the Third Army, after the battle, abandoned the attack on Vladivostok and only besieged Vladivostok to the death.

In addition, a main division and a brigade, as well as a field artillery brigade, totaling more than 30,000 people, participated in the Battle of Shuangchengzi.

The battle lasted for nearly two months, and Japan dispatched a total of 180,000 troops, and after paying nearly 100,000 dead and wounded, completely defeated the Russian Far Eastern Front, which suffered 120,000 casualties and more than 20,000 prisoners of the Japanese Army.

The 300,000 active main troops of Japan's standing reserve were almost lost, and the 80,000 troops that survived under the baptism of war, plus the domestic Guards Division, also became the last elite of the Japanese Army.

Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the two sides have fought a total of two large-scale battles, although both battles ended in Japanese victories, and after these two battles, the Russian Army was also defeated in the Far East.

However, the Japanese army also suffered heavy losses, not only did it consume almost the large amount of military supplies it had prepared over the past ten years, but it also had 300,000 troops in reserve, and one-third remained.

Russia, on the other hand, has lost more than 300,000 troops in the Far East, but the Russian Army has a great cause and can afford to lose it.

The elite of the Russian army on the Western Front was not damaged at all, and if it were not for the Far East being too far, Japan would not have been able to fight at all.

And at this time of the war, the two sides are also about to come to the negotiating table.

This is also the fundamental purpose of Japan's efforts to eliminate the Russian army in the Far East, Japan cannot afford to spend ten years of preparations, and it is almost empty, and it will be difficult for Japan to engage in a war with Russia no matter how much it mobilizes its national strength.

However, with the Russian Baltic Fleet approaching Japan, the final battle between the two sides is about to be staged at sea.

The United States is ready to mediate between the two sides regardless of the outcome of the naval battle.

The United States needs the Korean market, so it is actively on the side of Japan, but if it wants to mediate smoothly and get Russia to admit defeat and abandon its interests in Korea altogether, then Japan must defeat the Baltic Fleet.

Nicholas II was a greedy emperor who could not see despair and would never give up easily.

The Americans are well aware of this, and the Japanese are certainly well aware of this.

When the Russian Baltic Fleet was on a voyage of 10,000 kilometers, the combined fleet led by Heihachiro Togo was also actively preparing.

In the end, all the shells and torpedoes in the stock were consumed by the combined fleet during training.

Not a single torpedo or shell could be found in all the Japanese munitions warehouses.

Togo Heihachiro used a large amount of ammunition to greatly improve the strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet again.

The command rate of naval artillery was further raised, and it was waiting for the Russian fleet to come from thousands of miles away.

After the Battle of Shuangchengzi, the Second Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, consisting of the Baltic Fleet, was about to set off from Cam Ranh Bay in Southeast Asia.

The Russian Navy, having learned of the defeat in the Far East, did not give up, but still headed for the battlefield.

It took more than half a year to sail to the Far East, and the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, even if you want to, can't go back.