Wanbao Mountain

The attacking Russian army concentrated more than 20 artillery pieces, mostly 40 caliber and 75 caliber army field guns, and aimed at the Japanese position on the top of Wanbao Mountain.

The shelling lasted for 5 minutes and then stopped, and then the black pressure of the Russian attacking troops assaulted the hilltop position, and the battlefield immediately burst into gunfire, and the Japanese launched a counterattack, knocking the Russian soldiers who rushed to the front to the ground like leeks.

The attacking Russian soldiers also raised their guns and fired back, and the crisp sound of gunfire was generally endless.

Listen carefully

It can be found that the gunfire of the Japanese and Russian sides is intermittent, most of them are rifle single shots, occasionally mixed with some heavy machine guns "da...... Da Da Da Da "point shooting, there is no kind of crazy cathartic firepower.

This is not surprising, both the Japanese and Russian armies are short of heavy machine guns, but they lack sufficient ammunition and have no way to use them freely.

The reason is very simple, poor.

Tsarist Russia is now a decadent feudal serfdom, with the help of a large number of franc loans, the process of industrialization has just begun, the main body is still an agrarian society, the productive forces are backward, corruption is serious, and social contradictions are quite acute.

The ruling class of Tsarist Russia is good at waging wars of aggression and expansion against foreign countries in order to divert and alleviate social contradictions.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Fuso has vigorously introduced advanced industrial technology and scientific and technological development civilization from the West, and has also embarked on the process of industrialization, but due to the weak domestic foundation and lack of resources, the speed of development has not been fast.

The change came from the First Sino-Japanese War, after receiving huge war reparations from the Qing Dynasty, the Fuso Kingdom was favored by Britain and the United States, and gave it huge loans for its development, which made great progress in domestic industrialization.

After the signing of the Treaty of Xincho, Fuso once again obtained huge amounts of money through war, and the industrial economy developed rapidly like a great tonic, and the process of industrialization was further accelerated.

But after all, the time is still short, and Fuso is still a semi-industrialized and semi-agricultural society, and most of the industries are concentrated in light industries such as textile mills and silk reeling factories, earning hard-earned money.

Compared with the industrialized powers of Britain, Germany, the United States, France, and the United States, Japan, Russia, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire are much worse in their industrialization processes, and can only stand on the threshold of industrialization at most.

Therefore, in the Russo-Japanese War, the normal amount of ammunition carried by soldiers is about 20~30 rounds, and when the bullets are finished, the most common thing is the white-edged charge, because weapons and ammunition still cost money to buy, and human life is not valuable.

When the battle was fierce, not only did the white-knuckle battle take place during the day, but at night when the sight was poor, the enemy and the enemy encountered each other, and both sides did not use artillery, but launched a white-knuckle charge in a dense formation, killing corpses everywhere.

In order to distinguish friend from foe at night, the Russian army often wrapped strips of white cloth around their arms and went into battle in an almost primitive way.

A lot of the time

Officers of foreign military observer missions would think that this was a war between hot and cold weapons, which were used frequently and were frightening, and many battles were settled with bayonets.

During the battle a few days ago

The troops on the western flank of the Japanese army fought a bloody battle, and the Eighth Division was forced to carry out the world's largest white-knuckle assault battle, and more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers charged with snowy bayonets, breaking through the Russian army's heavy encirclement of the Akiyama brigade, and forcibly opened a big gap.

That blood-pumping grand scene is truly spectacular.

Wanbao Mountain position

After the three consecutive attacks of the Russian army were repulsed, the fourth attack was launched without pause, and it can be seen that the offensive attitude of the Russian generals is very resolute, and they must destroy the enemy at the commanding heights that threaten the rear headquarters, and fiercely dispatched two attack units with the size of a reinforced battalion to attack simultaneously from the front and the flank.

The Russian soldiers held up their snowy bayonets and shouted "Ula ......", and the tide poured up to the top of the mountain, and the crisp sound of gunfire was endless.

Standing in the rear, it can be seen that the gunfire of the Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain is much more sparse, and seeing that the fierce offensive of the Russian soldiers is difficult to contain, they soon approached the top of the mountain.

The Japanese soldiers on the top of the hill shouted, jumped out of the trenches, and rushed down with their shiny bayonets......

The two streams of people, one black and one yellow, collided fiercely, cursing, screaming, swords and guns colliding, mixed with the muffled snort of the blade stabbing into the flesh and the numbness of the scalp, like a bloody slaughterhouse, and in the blink of an eye, a large body lay down.

"Alas...... I can't stand it anymore. Major Zhou Lizhi sighed and put down the telescope in his hand.

At this time, several other military observers all put down their binoculars in their hands, and their expressions were solemn and silent.

The details of this tragic scene still don't need to be seen, so as not to have nightmares at night.

I've seen too much these days, and the whole person is not good.

Although they were extremely dissatisfied with these dog robbers in Japan and Russia, after all, the soldiers were all living people, and they were filled into the battlefield like a flesh mill, and tens of thousands of people were killed and injured at every turn, hundreds of thousands of people after a general battle, and anyone who saw it would be unbearable.

More than ten minutes later

There were bursts of cheers from the top of Wanbao Mountain, and the Russian soldiers were counterattacked by the fierce Japanese white blades, and this time the attack failed again.

But the Japanese army also paid a heavy price, with two or three hundred corpses visible to the naked eye, and blood stained the top of the mountain, and this victory was achieved at the cost of hundreds of lives, and the price was high.

With the weak strength of the Japanese army, how many times can it be supported?

Time passed minute by minute, and at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after repelling 6 attacks by the Russian army in a row, the 7th attack, the Russian army finally attacked the top of the mountain, and engaged in close-quarters white-knives combat with the remaining Japanese soldiers, and the two sides were killed.

See this scenario

The Russian commander lost no time in investing in the follow-up troops, and finally captured the hilltop position in one fell swoop, and the victorious Russian soldiers excitedly threw their hats into the sky and shouted "Ula...... Ula ......"

The remnants of the Gaocun Brigade, which held the position on Wanbao Mountain, retreated, and less than 400 of the more than 2,000 soldiers remained, most of them with injuries of varying severity, and more than 1,600 corpses remained on the hilltop position, where they were buried forever.

The attacking Russian army was also uncomfortable, they paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties, captured the hilltop position, and after a short rest, immediately began to re-dig the tunnel position, preparing for the Japanese counterattack.

On October 16 and 17, two days of fierce fighting, the Japanese and Russian armies repeatedly fought over the Wanbaoshan position, changing hands several times, until both sides were exhausted.

Then, the Japanese and Russians each consolidated their established positions, repaired fortifications, urgently sent reserves to the front to make up for the losses, confronted each other with high vigilance, and occasionally dispatched reconnaissance troops or carried out artillery bombardments.

This is only a microcosm of this counterattack, in which the Japanese and Russian armies fought day and night on a 50-kilometer-wide position, fighting on and off for more than a month until both sides were exhausted.

The Russian army could not break through the defense of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army could not eat the Russian army in one bite, which was like two strong men fighting desperately in the gladiatorial arena, bleeding each other with knives, guns and sticks......

Mainland Australia, Melbourne Star Lake Ranch

A latest-new silver crown sedan drove lightly on the asphalt road, the shade on both sides of the road flashed rapidly, changing the light and shade on the silver body, and the iconic shield-shaped front face in front of the front of the car showed a luxurious and extraordinary momentum.

Brigadier General Bian Chunsong was dressed in a white suit, a white top hat on his head, sunglasses on the bridge of his nose, a cigar in his mouth, and his hands leisurely rested on the ivory steering wheel, enjoying the pleasure of galloping.

His car is the latest Meteor sports sedan from Crown Motors, powered by an era-ahead 6-cylinder 5.8-liter petrol engine capable of driving the sedan to speeds of up to 105 kilometers per hour, an impressive figure for its time, far behind all its competitors.

The lavish hood in the shape of the roof of the church, and the high-arched streamlined wheel canopy are full of power, giving this "crown meteor" an extraordinary momentum.

Again, the price is very touching, and his "Valencia-style custom version" costs 19,600 gold oceans, almost close to 10,000 pounds.

In terms of grade, it is second only to the "Crown-Royal World" series of honorable cars.

After the car drove into the Xingxing Lake Ranch, Bian Chunsong deliberately slowed down, and the wheat waves in the fields around the ranch were rolling, and it seemed that it was another harvest season.

The road winds along the river, and after a few minutes you see the fence of the pasture, along which a large amount of alfalfa grass is planted, which is the favorite fat grass for horses, cattle and sheep, and the pasture has been planted on a large scale to carry more livestock.

The car went all the way, and a few minutes later, I saw the cowboys on the horses whipping in greeting, Bian Chunsong also waved his hand, and the car kept moving forward.

There are several BMW three-ton trucks full of grain, which is the daily convoy of grain and oil products delivered by the ranch to Melbourne, and the carriage is printed with five conspicuous Chinese characters of "Xingxing Lake Ranch", and there is a row of English below, which looks concise and clear.

The convoy slowed down from a distance and honked its horn in salute.

The two sides stopped on the side of the road, Bian Chunsong parked the car to the side, poked his head out and asked; "Which one is this delivering?"

"Sir, it's almost New Year's Day now, Melbourne's major companies will send rice and oil noodles during the festival, as well as pork legs, we are delivering to the fourth printing and dyeing factory, and the second manager is receiving the order outside, this is the third trip today."

"Oh, it's been hard for a while, and we also send things to the ranch during the holidays, so that everyone can have a happy New Year's Day."

"Thank you, sir, we're all very motivated."

"That's good, go early and come back early, and pay attention to safety on the road."

"Okay!"

After saying hello, six trucks started to move, one after another, whizzing by, heading in the direction of Melbourne.

Bian Chunsong drove the car on, from here you can see the long and narrow lake of Xingxing Lake, the towering castle is completely different from the original, this is a reinforced concrete building rebuilt in the later period, the exterior wall is paved with large red rocks, the high spire is particularly conspicuous, like a picture scroll under the clear water and blue sky.

The Crown-Meteor sedan soon drove into the center street of the Star Lake Ranch, which is no longer the scene of the past, with a wide asphalt road running through the center street, and a complete sewer facility built under the road leading directly to the Star Lake, which is completely the scale of a small market town.

There are many commercial facilities on both sides of the central street, with a total length of about 700 meters, and more than 1,000 people live there, all of whom are ranch employees, and more than 70% of them are Bian clan members who emigrated from the mainland.

The original wooden castle was not abandoned, but was instead used as a workplace for the ranch management committee, whose director was the distant uncle Bian Shouli, who was a very well-behaved old-fashioned businessman who ran the ranch quite prosperously.

With a total area of 28.4 square kilometres, about 7,700 acres (46,000 acres), Star Lake Ranch is one of the largest pastures in Melbourne, and now it accounts for about half of the ranch land, almost 4,000 acres, growing walnuts, apples, grapes, barley and rape, and making extensive use of agricultural machinery production, which greatly saves manpower.

The ranch has its own small farm repair station, a blacksmith shop, a flour mill and an oil mill, as well as a sizable winery that produces Star Lake wines.

Speaking of which, Baron Bian Chunsong is worthy of being a scholar, and he has his own set of theories about running a ranch, and he has reclaimed the land step by step to maximize the benefits, and has already operated this place as a "model ranch" known for his foresight.

This honor is not self-sealed, but an honor awarded by Victoria's "Beautiful New Rural Movement Leading Group", and there is a bronze plaque the size of an abacus, which is hung at the door of the ranch management committee.

The reason why Xingxinghu Ranch can be selected as a "model ranch" is also because of its reasonable planning, clean and beautiful environment, high happiness of ranch residents, and harmonious neighborhood relations, which can reflect a high level from the material and spiritual levels, and represent the direction of future ranch development.

Among the thousands of ranches in Victoria, Star Lake Ranch is one of the largest ranches, with less than 100 ranches on par, but only a handful of them are better than him.

In Victoria, it is the first pasture to use agricultural mechanization equipment on a large scale, the first to carry out diversified operations, and the first to build sewerage facilities in residential areas.

The more than 2,600 acres of barley grown by the mill can provide more than 3,000 tonnes of high-quality flour per year, and the flour mill buys a large number of grain processing from nearby pastures, with an annual production capacity of 10,000 tonnes and a net profit of nearly 100,000 pounds.

The mill has an annual production capacity of more than 470 tonnes and the winery sells tens of thousands of bottles of wine every year, all of which bring good profits to the farm.

Star Lake Ranch also has a large pig farm with 3,000 pigs, which regularly supplies live pigs to the Melbourne slaughterhouse, making full use of the orange stem feed from the pasture, the barley bran from the flour mill, and the wine pomace from the winery are also very good pig feed, which really makes the best use of everything.

The size of the sheep and cattle herds on the ranch has been shrinking year after year, but there is a horse farm of more than 140 horses, and the enclosure is home to Arabian thoroughbreds purchased at high prices from Western Asia, each of which is very expensive.

During his time as a military observer in South Africa, Bian Chunsong got in touch with many leading figures in the Somali region, and through his connections, he obtained more than 30 Arabian thoroughbreds and transported them back thousands of miles.

After several years of hard work, the scale of the horse farm is now large

To say that Bian Chunsong has a sharp vision of operating the ranch, none of the surrounding ranchers deny, he is the first rancher to plant walnuts, more than ten years has developed to more than 400 acres of walnut orchards, the production of walnuts with thin skin and thick flesh, firm flesh, can be squeezed oil, and is the most popular dried fruit in the food factory, making praline chocolate is essential.

Walnut trees generally mature in 5~6 years, and for more than 100 years after that, they basically wait for the fruit to bear fruit every year, and all that needs to be done is pruning and treating pests and diseases.

In the isolated environment of Australia, there are very few pests and diseases, so the walnut trees grow very thrivingly, bringing a large amount of stable income every year, which is much better than simply raising sheep and selling wool.

The market demand for walnuts is very strong, and Bian Chunsong plans to expand the planting area in the next step, and in the next 3~4 years, the scale of walnut orchards will quadruple to 1500 acres to 1600 acres.

At that time, you can consider building your own chocolate factory, specializing in the production of dried fruit chocolate, and you can also establish your own brand, wouldn't it be beautiful?

Therefore, he considered growing more varieties of dried fruit to meet his needs.

Driven by the Star Lake Ranch, the pastures around Melbourne have set off a boom in walnut planting, and the price of walnut seedlings cultivated by the ranch has been rising, making a lot of money invisibly.

Therefore, Bian Chunsong has been a career and family over the years, not only has a bright career prospect, but also earns a lot of money, and can maintain a decent aristocratic life.

"Sir, are you back?"

Watching the silver crown sedan drive all the way into the castle, Bian San'er followed with a trot all the way, blocked the servants who came forward, and opened the car door courteously.

Bian Chunsong got out of the car, threw the key to him with his hand, and explained while walking inside; "Drive the car over for me and wash it, remember to put on oil wax for maintenance, fill up the oil again, park it in the garage after it's all done, don't forget to pull out the key, if you run out of electricity, be careful of your dog's head."

"I know, this new car is your lifeline."

"It's good to know, I'm not at ease if I hand it over to someone else, I have to wait for you." Bian Chunsong took the hot towel handed by the maid, wiped it on his face, took it down and saw that the towel was already dark, and couldn't help but smile and say; "You see how dusty this little dirt road is, it makes my head all over my face, and when you wash the car, you have to wipe it down with a clean towel, and I forgot to close the window when I pass the dirt road."

"Don't worry, sir, even if it's the dust in the leather seams, I'll wipe it clean for you, and when the time comes, you can try it with a white handkerchief to ensure that you don't touch a little dust."

"Huh...... All right! ”

Bian Chunsong threw the hot towel in his hand into the copper basin, walked into the porch, took off the white top hat on his head and handed it to the maid on the side, and then strode in.

Bian San'er followed in step by step, and said; "The baroness accompanied the old lady to the city to watch the play, and the two young ladies and the little young master also went together, using your previous crown car, and it is estimated that it will be back in the evening."

"Well, is there any letter from me?"

"Yes, one letter from the Somali state, and one letter from the Tasmanian garrison, all in the study."

"Okay, I don't have anything to do here, let someone bring a cup of coffee, you just go and arrange my car."

"Got it, sir, coffee will be there soon."